In Episode 7 Lanier and Lessie discuss COVID-19’s impact as correlated to race and why Black folk are the most impacted by this disease. The co-hosts aim to advance the idea that universal healthcare is a time whose idea has come for America. They also admonish people to know their rights as it relates to healthcare and vaccines and wrap up with finding doctors who will actually hear you when you bring your health concerns to them and not act with implicit bias or dismiss your health concerns out of hand.

Our audience call to action is

>Watch Implicit Bias -- How it Effects Us and How We Push Through | Melanie Funchess | TEDxFlourCity

Co-host Book Suggestions

Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) by Institute of Medicine (Author), Board on Health Sciences Policy (Author), Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (Author), Alan R. Nelson (Editor), Adrienne Y. Stith (Editor), Brian D. Smedley (Editor)

Just Medicine;  A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care  written by Dayna Bowen Matthew

Thanks also to David L Branch II a/k/a Lil Sourstraw for the beat “Toronto.”

In Episode 7 Lanier and Lessie discuss COVID-19’s impact as correlated to race and why Black folk are the most impacted by this disease. The co-hosts aim to advance the idea that universal healthcare is a time whose idea has come for America. They also admonish people to know their rights as it relates to healthcare and vaccines and wrap up with finding doctors who will actually hear you when you bring your health concerns to them and not act with implicit bias or dismiss your health concerns out of hand.

Our audience call to action is

>Watch Implicit Bias -- How it Effects Us and How We Push Through | Melanie Funchess | TEDxFlourCity

Co-host Book Suggestions

Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) by Institute of Medicine (Author), Board on Health Sciences Policy (Author), Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (Author), Alan R. Nelson (Editor), Adrienne Y. Stith (Editor), Brian D. Smedley (Editor)

Just Medicine;  A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care  written by Dayna Bowen Matthew

Thanks also to David L Branch II a/k/a Lil Sourstraw for the beat “Toronto.”