Hard agree here. I completely agree with you here and it is why I have had my Drs. be surprised by how healthy my husband and I are despite us not meeting the threshold of what the dominant society has considered healthy, and whenever they have asked me why that was, I always told them that they should have studied from the medical textbooks that said that Black people could feel pain, rather than relying on the old books that said we didn't. I have a Dr. that was annoyed by the fact that her curriculum relied on that racist trope.
The bright side of it, is that this racist belief has largely spared our community from the opioid epidemic, but unfortunately the ultimately dark side of it, is that this belief is the reason why the Black maternal mortality rate is so fucking high in this country. Quite frankly, I would probably be safer giving birth in my ancestral village in Africa, where they'd likely call me "Mzungu" than I would here in this country. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to do so since the travel there would still be cheaper than the bill I'd get here for giving birth.
But yeah that is the major grievance many people share with the medical industry in this country.
But yeah, I tend to look at Drs. offices with the drug pamphlets like NASCAR jackets and vehicles.. full of sponsors and quite frankly we should do the same to Congress this way we know which politician is owned by which company.
But aside from that, I rely on the stuff my great-grandmother taught me, natural remedied as well as Dr. reccomendations. I prefer my Jack Herer vape to manage my ADHD compared to Ritalin.. which my Mom said made me a zombie when I was a kid, and unlike Rx drugs like Ritalin, my JH vape is good for depression, anxiety and a side benefit is appetite control, and with it being 55+% sativa, it is a stimulent that is more effective than caffeine, so it is good for activity, but, the appetite suppression throws me into hypoglycemia because it also boosts the Metformin I take for diabetes. So I don't use my JH as much since I figured this out.
Compare that with the side effects for Ritalin and the other drugs for anxiety and depression and things get dangerous and expensive very quickly.
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