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frustration among the vaccinated. folks have tried everything. 2 million dollar vaccine lottery in mallory 1 million bucks in maryland. big screen tvs in arkansas. sometimes it takes conversations from doctor to patient. what do you think will work here? it s important to realize that vaccination maze were low and certain demographics prior to the covid-19 pandemic. our health care system hand build large demographics as part of the pandemic. hard disease killed more people than the covid 19 pandemic last year. these problems are baked into the cake. we need to address those fundamental issues because, people don t trust the system or trust a lot of the institutions because they see what happens day in and day out. i am a black physician, a black cardiologist. i talk a lot about disparities
December 24, 2020
From the heart of the Mississippi Delta, where rates of diabetes and major amputations are among the highest in the nation, to laboratories where researchers ply cutting-edge technologies aimed at minimizing and repairing tissue loss, an unexpected tone has entered the conversation around limb disease: hope.
“They call me a hope dealer,” said Foluso A. Fakorede, MD (Cardiovascular Solutions of Central Mississippi, Cleveland). Born in Nigeria and educated in New Jersey, he felt drawn to work in the Delta by the disproportionately high rates of unnecessary amputations among the community of largely poor people of color. As a Black cardiologist, he also felt an urgency to step up and use his knowledge and connections within the medical community to be perhaps the only health advocate some of his patients had ever encountered.