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This is an important topic we haven't discussed much at all on here. But needs to be addressed. I do not go to white men for any medical treatment if I can help it. Especially dentists. I've had a few painful memories of them not numbing my tooth and feeling that drill on raw nerve.

I try to get black women. I read a report that women are more sensitive than men when it comes to your comfort and pain. But I try to go black, or non white and if its non white / black I try for a woman. I avoid groups that generally look down on us: Indians, Whites, Asians. It makes it a bit tough to find people depending on where I am but I ask for references from the family.

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A Deadly Epidural, Delivered by a Doctor With a History of Mistakes

NEW YORK — Dr. Dmitry Shelchkov, an anesthesiologist at a public hospital in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Brooklyn, would later say that his job was “straightforward” with “not a lot required.” But when it came time to give an epidural to Sha-Asia Semple, a pregnant 26-year-old woman in...
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    This is a really serious issue... and like you, I go to a black doctor... it's Medical Apartheid all over again... Ms. Harriet Washington was on to something when she wrote that book...

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