Week 7 Assignment: Education and Health Care

Read the following blogs and consider the author\’s opinions:

Challenging Medical Racism and Physicians’ Preference for White Patients
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/02/23/3625706/doctors-racism-health-system/

Four Ways Racism Continues to Influence Modern Medicine
http://racerelations.about.com/od/diversitymatters/a/Four-Ways-Racism-Continues-To-Influence-Modern-Medicine.htm

The Hidden World of Medical Racism in the United States
http://theconversation.com/the-hidden-world-of-medical-racism-in-the-united-states-9113

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Bias, Black Lives, and Academic Medicine
https://westcoastuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/5802903425

After you read the author\’s opinion blogs, write a 1– to 2–page paper in APA format that includes a brief explanation of the overall problem discussed throughout these blogs. Find your own academic sources using the WCU library that helps you explain why this problem might exist. Come up with a five-point action plan to reduce racism in the field of medicine. Justify your plan. Make sure to explain how you would teach each of the five points to those currently working in the health care field. (When you do this, think about what you have learned throughout the course about education, racism, and other areas that may affect your program.)

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Education and Health Care
Overall Problem Discussed
The first blog written by Tara (2015), puts across the challenges that patients of black descent go through in the hands of medical physicians. In the article, the blogger cites incidents where patients who are of white descent are given better healthcare services as | GET AN EXPERT FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT | do it unconsciously, the truth is that physicians spend less time with black patients who end up receiving care that is not effective. In the second blog, the author recounts the reasons why racism is still a big | GET AN EXPERT FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT | the previous article where the blogger cited the unconsciousness among physicians, in this blog, Kareem cites the lack of diversity in training as well as poor cross-cultural communication in the healthcare sector as the major cause of discrimination….