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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 15

      Overheard in the hospital, a woman from kitchen staff speaking with a doctor, both Black. Somehow the topic of #CovidVaccine came up. The doctor asked the woman if she’d gotten the vaccine yet. She said no and that she wasn’t going to. 1/

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 15

      The doc asked why. She said she was healed by His blood. The doc politely but urgently suggested that she “really should get the vaccine” because #COVID19 is “killing people out there.” 2/

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 15

      Her response was that when He wants you to come home, there’s nothing you can do about it. I suppose, from a Christian point of view, that’s true, but I also learned years ago, when I was still a devoted Catholic, that God helps those who help themselves. 3/

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 15

      Leaving our seemingly deformed theologies aside, this little overheard snippet of conversation as I was passing through reminded me that vaccine hesitancy is not just a problem among white, Trump-living evangelicals. It’s a huge problem among people of color as well. 4/

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 15

          I was further reminded that Blacks are much more severely affected by #COVID19 when a patient’s relative told me she know several people who had died of COVID, including a healthy man in his 50s. I know a fair number of people who got symptomatic COVID, but no one who died. 5/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 15

          I know, I know, this is anecdotal personal experience and thus unreliable and potentially unrepresentative, but it’s in line with what the data show. The bottom line is that we have a lot of work to do to win the trust of people like this woman. We need to do better. 6/6

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        1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 15

          Seemingly different theologies.🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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        2. Gengar Bergman‏ @TheRoseHipster Mar 15
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          A lot of that distrust and reliance on faith is, however, deeply rooted in the history/ongoing practices of racist medical violence against people of colour, especially Black people.

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Mar 15
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          Exactly. I’ve discussed this problem on a number of occasions. It’s not unreasonable for Black people to distrust the medical profession, given their history with it. The problem is: How do we overcome this mistrust?

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