Mend for Black Lives: Recognizing Disparities in Healthcare and Our Commitment

By |2022-11-15T14:06:59-05:00June 5th, 2020|Categories: Clinic Updates, Mend 2.0|Tags: , , |

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” -Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.  This is what we know: Black infant mortality rates are 2.5x that of their white counterpart Doctors are less likely to prescribe pain medication and appropriate treatment to black patients vs. white patients Data suggests physician bias/assumptions that black patients won’t comply with medication changes Black men with chest pain wait longer for an initial EKG than white [...]