Are Black people more likely to get dismissed when seeking medical care?

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A big example of this is how Black people living with sickle cell disease may be treated in the emergency room. Photo: Pexels

 

(Noor Ibrahim/ Global News) — Chantal Phillips still remembers the pain she experienced back in 2000.

At three years old, her mother took her to a Toronto doctor’s office for a urinary tract infection. She says, at the time, trying to urinate was too painful.

Phillips and her mom were out the door the same day without a remedy for the UTI.

“He just dismissed her, and said, you know, it’s not a problem, she’s only three years old,” Phillips says.

A couple of days later, Phillips says her pain intensified to the point she couldn’t sleep. Her mother brought her to the ER in the middle of the night. (…)

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