Mortality rate for Black babies is cut dramatically when they're delivered by Black doctors ...

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Tue Aug 18, 2020: Black newborns 3 times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors

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Mortality rate for Black babies is cut dramatically when they’re delivered by Black doctors, researchers say

By Tonya Russell
Jan. 9, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. EST

Rachel Hardeman has dedicated her career to fighting racism and the harm it has inflicted on the health of Black Americans. As a reproductive health equity researcher, she has been especially disturbed by the disproportionately high mortality rates for Black babies.

In an effort to find some of the reasons behind the high death rates, Hardeman, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and three other researchers combed through the records of 1.8 million Florida hospital births between 1992 and 2015 looking for clues.

They found a tantalizing statistic. Although Black newborns are three times as likely to die as White newborns, when Black babies are delivered by Black doctors, their mortality rate is cut in half.

"Strikingly, these effects appear to manifest more strongly in more complicated cases," the researchers wrote, "and when hospitals deliver more Black newborns." They found no similar relationship between White doctors and White births. Nor did they find a difference in maternal death rates when the doctor's race was the same as the patient's.

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[soothsayer]

1. That is so horrifying.

[black-bear]

2. Eugenics

It's called Eugenics. America's gift to Hitler.

[angstlessk]

3. Maybe black doctors are better for women too...

I am a white woman who had gall stones from age 17 till 30 something.

White docs gave me upper and lower GI's, had me swallow cameras, and when I was younger thought I was a drug addict looking for pain pills.

It was my second weekend at the hospital with the excruciating pain, and a black doc decided to give me the same video one gives to pregnant mothers and discovered I had a gallstone,

He did a laproscopy and found my gallbladder was huge, and my gallstone was the size of a ping pong ball, and wanted to actually cut me open to remove, but his techs convinced that he/they could remove through the laproscopy, which he did.

He told me all about it, and I have not had a pain since, and trust me it was often and extremely painful, and I had given up on a diagnosis.

Thank God for black doctors!