The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income country, NOLAobgyn says, and the problem is only getting worse.
Why is it that so many Black women have such stories? As an obstetrician and gynecologist and the medical director of my state’s maternal mortality review committee — and also as a Black woman who didn’t always get the best care when I was pregnant — I think the reasons include:. For far too long, the health care system has devalued the voices of Black women.
When I began feeling abdominal pains at 25 weeks of pregnancy, the doctors didn’t run on me the tests that I would have run on a patient in my office with those symptoms.the doctors didn’t run on me the tests that I would have reflexively run on a patient who appeared in my office with those symptoms. When I returned home, my doctor told me I was in danger of spontaneous preterm birth and immediately put me on medication and bed rest. As I’ve written previously, though I’m an expert in treating pregnant women, when I was before an unfamiliar medical team, I didn’t want to come across as “the angry Black woman,” which meant “
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