No Anesthesia, no Consent: how Black people have been victims of medical racism in the US| InfoBites

No Anasthesia, no Consent: why Black People Mistrust US Medicine. When Bill Gates’ ex-wife Melinda Gates, suggested Black people should be given priority in COVID vaccination, right after healthcare workers, it backfired on her. Black communities didn’t feel a doctor’s office was a safe place. They saw the initiative as another attempt to conduct mass testing of a new drug on people of colour. Why are people of colour in the US so distrustful of the medical profession? For centuries, the US medical system failed to serve people of colour. Enslaved people became unwitting test subjects, their bodies were sold to medical students for experiments. Doctors didn’t even ask slaves about their health, their only purpose was to declare slaves fit to work. As years went by, the situation didn’t change much. The people of colour continued to receive less testing and inferior treatment, while also suffering from long-lasting misconceptions about their health and bodies. The one about Black people being more resilient