So, a story time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had minor surgery about a week ago, and I was referred to the surgeon by my primary care physician, who’s a young dude who I’m good with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I go and get an ultrasound done beforehand, and had them send them to the surgeon’s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, in my first meeting with Surgeon-Man, he’s never seen the ultrasound. He tells me “I do these kinds of things all the time, so I can just knock this out.” He tells me it’s a 30 minute surgery and it’s outpatient and you’ll be home that day. To say that he was kinda cavalier is..about how I’d describe it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fast forward to the day after the surgery. He’s told my wife about when I can take a shower, and how long til the pain goes away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But..things aren’t the way they are supposed to play. I develop a fever, peaking at 101. I have a draining sapping pain that never goes away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I schedule a followup in a panic. Instead of a seven day checkup, I ask for one in three days. He listens to my concerns, looks at a clearly infected wound site, shrugs, and says “I GUESS that’s infected” and prescribes me an antibiotic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fast forward. Here’s what racism does; it plants in my head that it’s completely possible that my treatment and aftercare COULD have been part and parcel of me being a Black man and saying that I was in pain and him discounting that. I have no idea if that’s true, or if he does his white patients like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But that’s the price, right? “Does this happen to anyone else? Would it? Could it?” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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