Posts in Treat Us Right Podcast
Episode 6: Let's Talk About the Paradox of Caring for Aging Parents

There is a not-so-secret roadmap to successfully caring for your parent and staying sane in the process. The roadmap doesn’t reverse time or magically cure chronic disease. But it does give you enough time in the day to live your life while also doing the things that lead to better care and higher quality of life for your parent. Are you ready for the not-so-secret roadmap? It’s actually a paradox….

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Episode 5 - Unrest: Injustice Under the Law and in Health

Health disparities among black people are caused by racial inequality. Healthcare inequality is an outcome of racial inequality. Racism in healthcare is both interpersonal in terms of conscious and unconscious bias as well as institutional based on restricted access to the best doctors, treatments and facilities.

So not only are black people more likely to be infected by coronavirus from providing essential work or being connected to those people, but we are also more likely to get subpar care. That’s just facts.

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Episode 3: Be Ready for Any Health Situation by Improving Interactions with the Healthcare System

Your economic viability and personal health are the two most important factors in living your best life. But when you visit your doctor, you don’t prepare like you do at your job, do you? At your work presentation you had text, media, and data. You were tight. At your doctor visit, you’re only having a verbal exchange of information. What if you could be ready for your doctor visit with the same level of detail without having to spend the same time intensity in preparation?

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Episode 2 – Health Disparities with COVID-19 and Beyond. What Can We Do to Equalize Care?

The aggregate data on coronavirus, its spread, the response, and other metrics are definitely important. But just in the past week data has begun to emerge about who is getting COVID-19—by race. And the results are infuriating. It seems that Black folks are dying at a rate DOUBLE our population representation in each community across the country. This begs the question of why?

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Treat Us Right Podcast - Episode 1: Insights into Coronavirus - Interview with Dr. Jabari Reeves

Coronavirus is a potential pandemic that has spread to countries all over the world. What can we do to care for ourselves and our loved ones--especially aging parents who are most at risk? Listen to Dr. Jabari Reeves, board certified Emergency Medicine Physician, discuss coronavirus, its potential impact on seniors, treatment and testing recommendations amidst emergency situations, and more.

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