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Hannah Gruen
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On 9 Mar 2006 08:09:07 -0800, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Well, I'm going to toss this out and stand back with my flameproof suit
>on. While there are plenty of white people who have diabetes, it is
>even more common in the black and Hispanic community. How successful
>are we at fighting our "drug war" and who are the primary victims? How
>well did we take care of business in Florida with the hurricanes in
>2004 and how well are we taking care of New Orleans and the other areas
>hit by Katrina?
>
>And BTW, I'm a middle class white woman.
I don't think this warrants a flame-proof suit. LOL.
This isn't really a race/class issue, IMO. There are *many, many*
white T2 diabetics, from all socioeconomic classes. Granted its even
more common, statistically, in the groups you and Roger named, but
it's pretty much across-the-board.
I think the reasons it's being mishandled so badly by the medical
community are many and complex. But I really doubt that it is due to
race/class issues to any large extent. I personally think it has more
to do with institutional inertia, over-conformity, and probably
laziness on the part of the medical community, coupled with a big
profit drive (you could read this as greed) of the pharmaceutical
industry.
But that's just opinion on my part.
HG
wrote:
>Well, I'm going to toss this out and stand back with my flameproof suit
>on. While there are plenty of white people who have diabetes, it is
>even more common in the black and Hispanic community. How successful
>are we at fighting our "drug war" and who are the primary victims? How
>well did we take care of business in Florida with the hurricanes in
>2004 and how well are we taking care of New Orleans and the other areas
>hit by Katrina?
>
>And BTW, I'm a middle class white woman.
I don't think this warrants a flame-proof suit. LOL.
This isn't really a race/class issue, IMO. There are *many, many*
white T2 diabetics, from all socioeconomic classes. Granted its even
more common, statistically, in the groups you and Roger named, but
it's pretty much across-the-board.
I think the reasons it's being mishandled so badly by the medical
community are many and complex. But I really doubt that it is due to
race/class issues to any large extent. I personally think it has more
to do with institutional inertia, over-conformity, and probably
laziness on the part of the medical community, coupled with a big
profit drive (you could read this as greed) of the pharmaceutical
industry.
But that's just opinion on my part.
HG