49 min
Episode 14: Dr. Nicole Peoples Conscious Anti-Racism
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- Society & Culture
What is it really like to be both a physician and a mom of someone diagnosed with sickle cell? Why are patients with sickle cell often undertreated and their pain dismissed as drug addiction? How can the experience on both sides of a racially-charged disease help healthcare professionals learn more about the challenges of navigating the American healthcare system as a Black person?
In this series on healthcare and social disparities,, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts in multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this video, Jill interviews Dr. Nicole Peoples, a physician and mom, who describes her journey battling her daughter’s sickle cell diagnosis and systemic racism within the healthcare system. Systematic racism is ingrained within physician training, and this is particularly evident in the care of patients with sickle cell. Dr. Peoples explains how important it is for physicians of all backgrounds to check their preconceived notions at the door and acknowledge that, most often, their patients with sickle cell can help contribute to their own care in a positive way.
In addition to race-related bias associated with sickle cell, doctors are also taught to be biased against sickle cell patients the same way they are taught to be biased against people with substance abuse issues. Dr. Peoples explains that healthcare professionals must understand that these patients are in pain. The goal is to get that pain under control as well as accepting they may be defensive from their previous trauma. She lists several important ways that healthcare professionals can improve care and minimize the effects of bias in their care of patients with sickle cell.
Read more about sickle cell anemia: https://www.msm.edu/blog/2019/facts-and-factors-sickle-cell-anemia.php
Learn more about Dr. Peoples on her website: www.drnicolepeoples.com
Follow Dr. Peoples on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/drnicolepeoples
And https://www.facebook.com/peoplesfuntionalmedicine/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnicolepeoples and https://www.instagram.com/peoplesfunctionalmedicine/
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You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism.
Join her Conscious Anti-Racism facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/307196473283408/
Follow her on:
Instagram at www.instagram.com/jillwenerMD
Twitter at www.twitter.com/jillwenerMD
Facebook at www.facebook.com/jillwenerMDmeditation
LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/jill-wener-md-682746125/
What is it really like to be both a physician and a mom of someone diagnosed with sickle cell? Why are patients with sickle cell often undertreated and their pain dismissed as drug addiction? How can the experience on both sides of a racially-charged disease help healthcare professionals learn more about the challenges of navigating the American healthcare system as a Black person?
In this series on healthcare and social disparities,, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts in multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this video, Jill interviews Dr. Nicole Peoples, a physician and mom, who describes her journey battling her daughter’s sickle cell diagnosis and systemic racism within the healthcare system. Systematic racism is ingrained within physician training, and this is particularly evident in the care of patients with sickle cell. Dr. Peoples explains how important it is for physicians of all backgrounds to check their preconceived notions at the door and acknowledge that, most often, their patients with sickle cell can help contribute to their own care in a positive way.
In addition to race-related bias associated with sickle cell, doctors are also taught to be biased against sickle cell patients the same way they are taught to be biased against people with substance abuse issues. Dr. Peoples explains that healthcare professionals must understand that these patients are in pain. The goal is to get that pain under control as well as accepting they may be defensive from their previous trauma. She lists several important ways that healthcare professionals can improve care and minimize the effects of bias in their care of patients with sickle cell.
Read more about sickle cell anemia: https://www.msm.edu/blog/2019/facts-and-factors-sickle-cell-anemia.php
Learn more about Dr. Peoples on her website: www.drnicolepeoples.com
Follow Dr. Peoples on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/drnicolepeoples
And https://www.facebook.com/peoplesfuntionalmedicine/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnicolepeoples and https://www.instagram.com/peoplesfunctionalmedicine/
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You can learn more about Dr. Wener and her online meditation and tapping courses at www.jillwener.com, and you can learn more about her online social justice course, Conscious Anti Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change at https://theresttechnique.com/courses/conscious-anti-racism.
Join her Conscious Anti-Racism facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/307196473283408/
Follow her on:
Instagram at www.instagram.com/jillwenerMD
Twitter at www.twitter.com/jillwenerMD
Facebook at www.facebook.com/jillwenerMDmeditation
LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/jill-wener-md-682746125/
49 min