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When your child's symptoms aren't taken seriously until a white advocate steps in

My daughter has been having seizures for months and three different doctors told me it was just anxiety, but when my white friend took her to the same ER they immediately ordered an EEG.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You are confronting the terrifying reality that your child's health depends not just on medicine but on the racial dynamics of who delivers and advocates for their care.

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“Where Are You with Healthcare equity and structural racism in medicine?”

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