John Oliver bias in medical care is a 'discussion that we need to have'
about 5 years in The guardian
The Last Week Tonight host examined medical bias, from dismissing women’s pain to the black maternal mortality crisis
On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver argued for an honest discussion around gender and racial bias in medical care, noting that “if you are a woman and/or a person of color in the US, you may well have a very different relationship to our healthcare system than a white man”.
“Frankly, who better to talk at you for 20 minutes about this than me, the whitest of white men,” said Oliver, a self-described “walking cider donut – pale, filled with cake and found at every farmer’s market in the north-east” who gets a “sunburn while watching the Travel channel”. Continue reading...
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