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Mount Sinai Health System has launched new digital tools to give patients faster access to virtual care, an AI-based symptom checker, and a virtual assistant.
so what is the issue? this is a great question and we are struggling with this question and we are struggling more importantly with solutions. but if you look at the data on just how the disparities that black people and black women specifically are subjected to, even in emergency room care it takes longer for them to get seen. they have fewer rates of admission from the emergency room. their complaints of pain are not taken as seriously and consequently a normal human reaction would be, well, i m not taken seriously, i m not going to go get care. there are so many levels of problem here. i wish i had the solution. i don t have the solution. i will say that having doctors that look like their patients is super important. we do not have enough people of color, we do not have enough black doctors and that makes a difference. we know outcomes are different when we look like our doctors, this happens with women across the board also by the way. not here to disparage white male
and they don t seek prenatal care and this is directly going to impact the health and wellness of pregnancy across the entire country. we want people to be able to come get care. to come get medical advice and to be able to take care of themselves, in whatever way that they need. but the more and more that we associate health care providers with the police state, the more unhealthy all of our communities will become. melissa, you referenced walgreens. i just want to come back to that point because in the last hour i spoke with two to stop selling i want to take a listen to what she said. i will talk about it on the other side. we have here at walgreens, they are buckling under the political pressure of these attorneys general, s conservative a attorneys general representing conservative states but states where abortion is still illegal. they are saying to walgreens and other pharmacies around the country that no, you cannot follow the guidelines of the