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The Health Care System Earned Black Coloradans’ Mistrust
How historic racism and inequality in healthcare undermined efforts to tend to communities of color during COVID-19.Angela Ufheil •
Terrence Hughes was seven, maybe eight, years old when he fell out of a cherry tree near his home in Toledo, Ohio, around 1973. Hughes’ uncle rushed him to the emergency room, where X-rays revealed a severe wrist fracture. The doctor, who was white, told his young, Black patient, “This is gonna hurt.” He then roughly grabbed Hughes’ wrist and squeezed it, hard, to reset the bones. “I thought I was going to hit the ceiling,” Hughes says.
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