How Unequal Opportunity Affects Health

I’m joined by Dr. Charles Modlin, Dr. Leonor Osorio, and Tawny Jones on this week’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy. We talk about the financial burdens many people face—keep the lights on or go to the doctor?—as well as how children learn habits around food and healthcare from their parents and how open and honest education can be a huge catalyst for change.

Food is not white or black and it’s one of our greatest tools for creating better health, we talk about some of the initiatives that are doing that.

Dr. Charles Modlin is a Kidney Transplant Surgeon, Urologist, Executive Director of Minority Health, and the Cleveland Clinic Physician Lead for Public Health. He founded and directs Cleveland Clinic’s Minority Men’s Health Center (MMHC) and in 2003 established Cleveland Clinic’s Annual Minority Men’s Health Fair.

Dr. Leonor Osorio has been on staff at Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital practicing Internal medicine since 2001. She was instrumental in the opening of the Lutheran Hospital Hispanic Clinic, which connects patients to Spanish speaking physicians.

Tawny Jones is an accomplished Administrator at the Cleveland Clinic. For 19 years, she has served as a well-respected leader, managing patient concentric care initiatives. She leads clinical operations at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine.

16 Comments on How Unequal Opportunity Affects Health

    • @Al Rivers no, decent people don’t use race as an excuse to cry about everything. Times have changed, black people are no longer the victim in everything. Decent black people don’t use their skin color to get through life. They simply work hard like everyone else. And the same goes for brown, white, etc…

    • @OoWINDEXoO lol, I guess you just don’t realize racism still exists on many different levels in society, some very subtle. It gets better with each passing generation but we still have a ways to go. You just sound very insensitive which is a form of racism in itself.

    • @Al Rivers yeah okay. I’m a Latino minority, but by your logic, I’m racist too now… You people need to grow up and take responsibility for your own lives rather than blaming everyone else and calling everything racist. It’s because of people like you that the word has lost all meaning.

    • @OoWINDEXoO I happen to be of Hispanic origin too. But people of all races can be racist too and like I said it can range from overt to very subtle. You seem like a trump supporter type, are you?

  1. Mark Hyman has officially joined the sjw woke crowd. People are responsible for the decisions they make. Those decisions effect their health.

    Stoping perpetuating a victim mindset and take control of your health. The information is there and it’s free!

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