Today, Amy speaks with Teniola Ongunro about racial bias:

—how it can be one of the most detrimental and undercutting barriers for BIPOC in getting proper diagnosis and treatment

—how doctors may have implicit and explicit biases

—some ways it can affect healthcare and what we can do about it

🎤WHO IS TENIOLA ONGUNRO?🎤

Teniola Ongunro is an endo warrior born in Nigeria who hosts the podcast ‘Not Defined By Endo’

🔗RESOURCES🔗

For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode45

🔗Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care Book by Dayna Matthews

🔗So You Want to Talk About Race Book by Ijeoma Oluo

🔗How We Fail Black Patients in Pain

🔗Research explores racial bias in medical care across nations

🔗Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans

🔗Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy-Related Deaths — United States, 2007–2016

🔗US Department of Health and Human Services. Profile: Black/African American

🔗Racial Bias Found in a Major Health Care Risk Algorithm

🔗FitzGerald, C., Hurst, S. Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review. BMC Med Ethics 18, 19 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-017-0179-8

🔗Myths and Misconceptions Perpetuating Racism in Endometriosis, Infertility, and Pelvic Pain. – several African American advocates share their experiences on navigating endo

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