We know we need more diversity in the western world, which has largely been whitewashed over the course of the past two thousand years.
Twitter user @Oga_DoctorBlue shared an anecdote about a recent patient who had come in with severe weakness in his legs:
Quickly, he realized he was the only person of color in the room:
And he was glad that he asked:
A simple chance to connect with the patient is really all it took to get him to understand exactly what was going on in his brain.
And the internet agrees: it matters.
According to The New York Times, black men have the lowest life expectancy of any ethnic sub-group in the United States as a whole. If this small anecdote shows us anything, it's that the key to keeping black men healthy might be having more black men in the medical field. It could just save lives.
