Glenn Greenwald

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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Encouraging under-represented groups to go to medical school is fine, but telling people that only doctors of their race can properly treat them is sick, dangerous, racist and segregationist. It never occurred to me that I can't be treated by non-white or non-Jewish doctors. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 23, 2023

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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If you seek medical help because you're ill and you notice the doctor you get is a different race than you, then - according to CNN - you should make a beeline for the exit because a doctor of a different race can't understand your culture or lived experience enough to treat you: — PolitiTweet.org

Only about 6% of doctors in the US are Black or African American — about half of the percentage of patients. Expert… https://t.co/7CuOtsX1X9

Posted Feb. 23, 2023

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@apadillafilm6 As I said in the very next tweet you were too slothful to read - out of eagerness to draw attention to yourself by implying I'm a racist - I don't object to encourage broader representation in medicine, only to telling people doctors of a different race can't properly treat them. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 23, 2023