For Black patients, telehealth provided increased access and comfort while interfacing with an often hostile medical system.
Additionally, racial biases extend to other areas of medicine.
In short: the traditional healthcare system often harms Black patients.
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Instead, she considers finding solutions to eliminating implicit biases, prejudices, and racism is the real priority.
Telehealth doesnt suddenly protect one against certain healthcare injustices in the form of racism.
Havian Sterile, NP, is a Philadelphia-based nurse practitioner, offers her medical expertise through Nurx.
For some patients, access to Black doctors like Dr. Igobokeboth virtually and IRLdoeshelp mitigate traumatic medical experiences.
I think that directs every interaction that Ive had.
I think telehealth gives us more time to truly spend time with the patient.
However, Sterile says that having more Black providers goes a long way toward helping Black patients thrive.
Ultimately, telehealth services do make healthcare more accessible, its one component of a large and complicated puzzle.
For each patient and healthcare provider comes different perspectives of telehealth.
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