Nobody wants to name the problem, but let’s call it what it is: social injustice is part of our healthcare system. Black and Hispanic people are far more likely to get sick and die from the 10 leading causes of death due to a range of factors, including lack of access and discrimination in our healthcare system and policies. When you consider that most treatments and drugs are only tested on white males, it’s clear we’re ignoring the unique wellness needs of so many other populations. And the result of these disparities gets passed down through generations. We need to work on solutions now. This week on The Doctor’s Farmacy I sat down with Dr. Charles Modlin, Dr. Leonor Osorio, and Tawny Jones from Cleveland Clinic to talk about these issues and ways to create a new multi-cultural dynamic in healthcare.
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. 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 who leads clinical operations at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine.
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An interesting perspective but real! This is a developing trend in developing countries but it is interesting to realise that this
happens in the US. Thank you for creating this awareness and need to advocate with the perspective of social injustices globally.
Grocery carts of those on food stamp I observe routinely: Pop, junk food, chips, cookies, white flour products, foods devoid of nutrition. Must change food stamp system and designate only health promoting foods being scanned on their free style cards. Enabling ILL health otherwise folks. Any wonder minorities are frequent flyers in Allopathic system?
If one does not have the financial means why keep having children beyond ones means?
If more people would eat more real food and eliminate the crapola, they wouldn’t need so much healthcare in the first place. The vast majority of healthcare needs are self-inflicted. And the citizens of every nation on the planet that move from their native real food to importing and eating the garbage too many Americans eat are getting the same health consequences we are. We all need to smarten up.
Health care can NOT be tied to your job because employers will just fire you when you miss work due to illness.
As long as we have a pay or die for profit system things are not going to change.
What kind of insane system separates your dental and vision from the rest of your body? This is also a major problem, you can’t get a dentist to even look at you unless you have cash or separate insurance.
Don’t forget the elderly who live on a fixed income and can’t afford expensive meds and copays and also live in rural underserved areas.
Please someone get that lady a drink.
I really think more doctors have got to lobby for their patients because they have NO voice in this discussion and that is such a huge problem.
This was great! I will be sharing this video to as many people as I can!
How can I find reputable functional medicine doctors near me in Sacramento CA? Also, Do you know Kaiser covers any of these services?
A very interesting discussion! Happy to see Dr Modlin, after many years. He was on my husband so transplant team at Akron City Hospital. It is interesting to see how he has changed over the years. I suspect he finds these current projects more fulfilling. It was a pleasure to become acquainted with him years ago.
I was referring to the Cleveland Clinic kidney transplant team that served Akron City Hospital.