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A Medical Mythbuster’s Mission to Improve Health Care | Joel Bervell | TED

Joel Bervell was one of the only Black students in his medical school program. After noticing how misconceptions about race were embedded in health care, he turned to social media to raise awareness about the harmful impact of biases in medicine. He unpacks the long history of race-based health care disparities — and shows what…

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October 14, 2024

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@CrazyCartoons-ku9hl

October 14, 2024 at 2:27 pm

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@saifulislampm

October 14, 2024 at 2:27 pm

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@sooma-ai

October 14, 2024 at 2:32 pm

Joel Bervell, a medical student and social media influencer, discusses racial biases in healthcare and uses platforms like TikTok to raise awareness about health disparities. He emphasizes the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in medicine to improve patient care.

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@isaak1904

October 14, 2024 at 2:33 pm

During the lord’s work ty

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@Prof_Sheraz

October 14, 2024 at 2:33 pm

Love from Pakistan ❤

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@nathanbenson4619

October 14, 2024 at 2:36 pm

Seen this video in first 500😌 and commented at no.6. take care everyone.

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@urbanstrencan

October 14, 2024 at 2:53 pm

Great video 😊❤.

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@monalisa-bs4zs

October 14, 2024 at 3:23 pm

Kid is too young and indoctrination to be informative.

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- @IrresistibleWitch
  
  October 14, 2024 at 9:59 pm
  
  What is his age?
  
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@changyone

October 14, 2024 at 4:16 pm

Why is it always about white and black how about the other origins? Clearly they ignore the black due to a reason I never heard people raise their eyebrow when an Asian is studying medicine or laywer. How about what race involved the most in drugs dealing?

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- @IrresistibleWitch
  
  October 14, 2024 at 9:58 pm
  
  Are you American?because you know the answer to the question if you are.
  
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- @18luckyhappy92
  
  October 16, 2024 at 10:13 pm
  
  You’re missing the point entirely. There are medical device and diagnostic corrections based on race that have caused great harm over several decades. He and others are challenging these assumptions.
  
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- @changyone
  
  October 16, 2024 at 10:53 pm
  
  @@18luckyhappy92 I understand how you think and it is true that researchers are mostly focused on the country that funded the research making also applying these medicine less effective on some other regions. Humans are complex beings, think about hair structure of people from different regions. Why should we discriminate and force the black into medical school if in general they are not keen but think about how many black doctors there are in Africa. Not to be racist but this is how the world works. Not only race but men, female, children in the medical world needs to be study more deeply because most medicines are based on white male.
  
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@maryannhope8276

October 14, 2024 at 4:56 pm

💯agree 😡

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@greenlightstudios3816

October 14, 2024 at 8:13 pm

Alright folks, diseases are racist now. Let’s cancel it.

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@greenlightstudios3816

October 14, 2024 at 8:20 pm

I ain’t one to speak of a subject he’s likely learned more about, but every example he gave comes off as CRT implementation. Every person has their share of medical malpractice experiences, why he cherry-picked black people as examples to promote CRT for the medical industry is baffling.

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- @IrresistibleWitch
  
  October 14, 2024 at 9:57 pm
  
  What are you talking about? Did you watch the video?
  
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@monicateicher3894

October 14, 2024 at 8:48 pm

So glad he’s bringing greater awareness to medical treatment disparities and promotes education in identifying how conditions may present differently and doctors need to be trained on the greater diversity of presentations. We all deserve the best care available and it can only be brought by better and more robust education. ❤

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@Skhan-gq4bb

October 14, 2024 at 9:21 pm

In Islam Black and White, Rich and Poor, Disable and Non Disable are EQUAL ❤

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- @Cathee.M.
  
  October 14, 2024 at 11:25 pm
  
  Except women.
  
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@paddleduck5328

October 14, 2024 at 10:24 pm

👏

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@nicolehernandez2952

October 15, 2024 at 12:29 am

Proud of you ❤

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@PulkitRana_1169

October 15, 2024 at 12:55 am

PTE students like❤

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@sanyabrestify

October 15, 2024 at 1:20 am

Всех телефонов должны одинаковые настройки на экране

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@shannon-uc1tm

October 15, 2024 at 1:52 am

YES! THANK YOU! FROM GUAM🏝

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@SaiqaDaud

October 15, 2024 at 4:51 am

Our Last Holy Prophet Muhammad ( Peace be upon him) said in His last Pilgrim, ” White has no superiority over black and black has no superiority over white”

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@LukasFischer2111

October 15, 2024 at 10:35 am

We need more people telling us truth like. Just finished reading “The 23 Former Doctor Truths” by Lauren Clark. It is fascinating how society gets lied by Industry.

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@Bob-x7n

October 15, 2024 at 12:29 pm

Where do you get these guys from, how can a device be racist? Like seriously how can it determine if its asian or black or white person breathing into it. And how x-ray radiation can be racist?

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