Biases In The Healthcare System

After reading the articles what stood out to me was that there are gender bias between men and women. For example, when women are overweight people judge them more instead of trying to help, when it comes to men being overweight they try to help them. It is not fair that women are always so quick to be judged. 

The health care system is not as good as it should be, it is not affordable for most people and even when it is there are sometimes people who have it harder when it comes to trying to receive the proper care. For example, in the article American Doctors Are Failing Their LGBT Patients it states how when people of the LGBT community often receive poor or lackluster healthcare it can be hard for them. What are some ways that we can challenge these biases in the future? I think we need to be more understanding of people like there should not be a bias between men and women they should both get treated equally especially when it comes to health care, doctors can offer them both great treatments and advice. No one should be judging these people. Also people from the LGBT community should not be having a harder time when it comes to receiving health care. Over all health care needs to change by becoming more understanding. 

Published by jocelyngggg

My name is Jocelyn Gonzalez my pronouns are she/her I grew up in the Bay Area, in Fremont and Newark. I am still located in Newark. I am glad I stayed in Newark since I have family here. I enjoy commuting to school although sometimes the traffic is horrible. My major is sociology and I have a minor in criminal justice. I took a death and dying course last semester and in that course we discussed medicine. When I was going through the elective courses I knew I wanted to learn more about medical sociology. I am looking forward to learning more about this subject and I am also excited that this online course is different than the previous ones I have taken.

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