Why doctors believed Black people couldn’t get diabetes

Summary

Doctors used to believe that Black people couldn’t get diabetes because it was a disease of the “civilized” and wealthy. Decades of mistreating and misdiagnosing diabetes among Black Americans continues to impact this community today, as Black patients are nearly 20% less likely to get access to new diabetes drugs like GLP-1s. So what can be done to make access to lifesaving medicine more equitable? This is the third episode of our new series, Kahlil Explains, featuring the Gen Z Historian @kahlil.greene. Watch the full episode now on Vox’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/vox Subscribe to our…

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