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 the medical field can do to better serve all patients. (Recorded for TED Fellows Films 2024 on April 16, 2024)
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@CrazyCartoons-ku9hl
October 14, 2024 at 2:27 pm
Bangladesh 💝
@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.
@isaak1904
October 14, 2024 at 2:33 pm
During the lord’s work ty
@Prof_Sheraz
October 14, 2024 at 2:33 pm
Love from Pakistan ❤
@nathanbenson4619
October 14, 2024 at 2:36 pm
Seen this video in first 500😌 and commented at no.6. take care everyone.
@urbanstrencan
October 14, 2024 at 2:53 pm
Great video 😊❤.
@monalisa-bs4zs
October 14, 2024 at 3:23 pm
Kid is too young and indoctrination to be informative.
@IrresistibleWitch
October 14, 2024 at 9:59 pm
What is his age?
@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?
@IrresistibleWitch
October 14, 2024 at 9:58 pm
Are you American?because you know the answer to the question if you are.
@maryannhope8276
October 14, 2024 at 4:56 pm
💯agree 😡
@greenlightstudios3816
October 14, 2024 at 8:13 pm
Alright folks, diseases are racist now. Let’s cancel it.
@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.
@IrresistibleWitch
October 14, 2024 at 9:57 pm
What are you talking about? Did you watch the video?
@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. ❤
@Skhan-gq4bb
October 14, 2024 at 9:21 pm
In Islam Black and White, Rich and Poor, Disable and Non Disable are EQUAL ❤
@Cathee.M.
October 14, 2024 at 11:25 pm
Except women.
@paddleduck5328
October 14, 2024 at 10:24 pm
👏
@nicolehernandez2952
October 15, 2024 at 12:29 am
Proud of you ❤
@PulkitRana_1169
October 15, 2024 at 12:55 am
PTE students like❤
@sanyabrestify
October 15, 2024 at 1:20 am
Всех телефонов должны одинаковые настройки на экране
@shannon-uc1tm
October 15, 2024 at 1:52 am
YES! THANK YOU! FROM GUAM🏝
@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”
@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.
@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?