Social media can be a powerful tool — especially when used to educate and inform.
A medical student turned TikTok educator exposes how racial bias quietly calcifies into clinical practice — and why most doctors don't even know it's there.
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What looking back at this history teaches us is how racism becomes embedded and unnoticed until we raise the alarm to practices that make no sense.”
What looking back at this history teaches us is how racism becomes embedded and unnoticed until we raise the alarm to practices that make no sense.
Reviewing history reveals that racist medical practices persist precisely because they go unquestioned until someone publicly challenges them.
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made me want to actually take to TikTok and Instagram to talk about the things that I wasn't seeing in school. My name is Joel, the medical mythbuster. And let's talk about racial bias with the alpha-fetaoprotein test. And let's talk about racial biases in lung function tests. What looking back at this history teaches us is how racism becomes embedded and unnoticed until we raise the alarm to practices that make no sense. My followers often are commenting on my videos saying, "I haven't seen this anywhere else." A study in 2016 was done
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50% of medical students or residents endorse at least one false biological belief about differences between Black and non-Black patients.
Half of trainee doctors still hold false race-based biological beliefs, proving historical bias actively shapes patient care today.
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What looking back at this history teaches us is how racism becomes embedded and unnoticed until we raise the alarm to practices that make no sense. My followers often are commenting on my videos saying, "I haven't seen this anywhere else." A study in 2016 was done and it actually showed that 50% of medical students or residents endorse at least one false biological belief about differences between Black and non-Black patients. So goes to show how the history of these biases and stereotypes continue till today and can impact the way that patients get care.
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When we don't know it's a problem, we don't do anything about it.
Awareness is the prerequisite for action, making the speaker's educational mission a matter of practical urgency.
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they were ignored and they want to understand why. I think that social media can save lives when used in the right way. It can inform masses about really crucial issues that are often overlooked in the media. But I want them to know that they have the power and there's information they can have when they get to the doctor so they feel a little bit more confident. When there's awareness, providers, patients researchers can actually start tacking a problem, but I think when we don't know it's a problem, we don't do anything about it.
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Most Black people have had an experience in the hospital where they felt like they weren't listened to — and they want to understand why.
A shared, widespread personal grievance among Black patients is what drives demand for the explanations the speaker provides online.
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about differences between Black and non-Black patients. So goes to show how the history of these biases and stereotypes continue till today and can impact the way that patients get care. Because everyone, especially most Black people, have had an experience in the hospital where they felt like they weren't listened to, they were ignored and they want to understand why. I think that social media can save lives when used in the right way. It can inform masses about really crucial issues that are often overlooked in the media.
Most Black people have had an experience in the hospital where they felt like they weren't listened to they were ignored — and they want to understand why.
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Social media can save lives when used in the right way — informing masses about crucial issues overlooked everywhere else.
The speaker's central argument: social media uniquely reaches people with health information that mainstream channels consistently fail to provide.
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continue till today and can impact the way that patients get care. Because everyone, especially most Black people, have had an experience in the hospital where they felt like they weren't listened to, they were ignored and they want to understand why. I think that social media can save lives when used in the right way. It can inform masses about really crucial issues that are often overlooked in the media. But I want them to know that they have the power and there's information they can have when they get to the doctor
Social media can save lives when used in the right way It can inform — informing masses about really crucial issues that are often overlooked everywhere else.
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