How The Tuskegee Experiments Still Impact Trust For Medical Industry

While all doctors take the Hippocratic oath and pledge to “do no harm,” the systemic mistreatment of Black patients throughout American history reveals this as a broken promise. From J. Marion Sims, the so-called “Father of Gynecology,” who experimented on enslaved Black women <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/17/603163394/-father-of-gynecology-who-experimented-on-slaves-no-longer-on-pedestal-in-nyc" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">without anesthesia</a>, the forced sterilization of Black women that occurred so frequently, it earned the nickname — a Mississippi appendectomy, to unethical studies performed on Black men what became known as the Tuskegee Experiments, White doctors in America have engaged in behavior that has ultimately damaged the relationship between Black people and the medical industry. <a href="https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/how-the-tuskegee-experiments-still-impact-trust-for-medical-industry-a933f4059216">Click Here</a>