Medicine and Race | S5 E4

Buried Truths

WABE

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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How medical myths about Black people led American health care to fail Clarence Pickett in 1957. It is a tragedy that, 70 years later, is still failing African-Americans.

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0:00.0	Support for the Buried Truths podcast comes from our presenting sponsor, Emory University, where students and researchers turn big ideas into problems solved.
0:10.2	Learn more at emory.edu.
0:13.2	The African American Development Officers Network invites you to the AADO 2025 fundraising conference, September 15th through 17th at the Emory Conference Center in Atlanta.
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0:33.1	networking, and practical tools to strengthen your fundraising and leadership. With over 25 sessions led by
0:38.8	top experts in philanthropy and nonprofit leadership, you'll leave with strategies you can use right
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0:57.5	The following podcast contains moments of violence, profanity, and uncensored racism. It may not be
1:04.7	suitable for all audiences. Episode 4, medicine and race.
1:12.6	We still do that now. We see different outcomes in colon cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease. And then the question medicine ask a lot of times is what's different about the black person that leads them to have these diseases.
1:30.2	So rather than ask what's wrong with the black body, it's the question really should be what's wrong with society and what's it doing to the black body differently than the white body.
1:42.0	That's Dr. Francois Rawlin, an assistant professor at Emory University's School of Medicine in Atlanta,
1:49.0	who studies the role of racism in medicine.
1:52.5	And we'll hear more from him and others about health care and Clarence Pickett's Day.
1:57.1	And those experts will draw a straight line from the failings of the past to the inequities of the present.
2:05.0	We'll start with the past.
2:07.9	This is Barry Truce. I'm Hank Klybinoff.
2:12.5	In the 1950s, when you called Grady Memorial Hospital's ambulance service in Atlanta, the first
2:19.7	question the dispatcher asked was not necessarily what you'd expect.
2:24.4	You'd expect to hear, what is the nature of your emergency, right?
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