And I'm sure it was difficult for her family to see her go through this illness when she was alive, which if caught early, maybe Jessica could have had a hysterectomy and still been with her family. But unfortunately, and I'm willing to believe that her ethnicity had a lot to do with it, unfortunately, Jessica became a casualty of a healthcare system that simply does not take black healthcare seriously on lot of levels. So thank you so much for listening
But regarding this precious loss of Jessica, I think the word care should be taken out of the description. And I quite often wonder, when I hear stories like this, how does a person in the field of health and medicine live with themselves? My understanding is that physicians take an oath to do the best that they can to provide medical services to those in need
LaShekia Chatman
@Sheika_MC · 4:05
And even I think you and I had discussed, even when you have racial resonance with practitioners, it's still a problem because they're still influenced by the culture of teaching and medical education in America. And so that young woman probably wouldn't have entered her mind to think anything differently than getting the treatment that she had received and seeking help. And some of the women who are receiving perinatal care that I've worked with in my research, who had horrible post lnd experiences, and they had doulas
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 3:47
And then the reasons behind her death are even more painful. It's just amazing to me, and I know that it's the practice of medicine, but it's just amazing to me how we can go to the doctor, and we can say, ouch, this hurts. Sorry, I had a phone call. We can say, ouch, and we can say, this hurts. And they'll tell us not it'll hurt, or they'll tell us why they think it hurts
Cheyonia Wade
@Chey · 4:51
And now he's, adam, been here twice, and now he's telling me that he has to take it out. He has to take the stuff out and put medicine in it. And I walked. She said, go back in the building. I walked back in the building. I gave him the phone. I don't know what she said to him, but within five minutes, I had the tooth out my mouth, and I was no longer in pain