Angelina Jolie Discusses Daughter’s Racial Medical Bias, Advocates For Racial Equality For Domestic Violence Survivors
“As the mother of children of multiple races, I have seen my children of color be misdiagnosed, at times in ways that endangered their health,” Jolie, a mother to six children, including three of color, wrote.
The actor draws on the experience of her daughter Zahara, who is of Ethiopian descent, to highlight the inequalities that remain in the medical field.
“Reflecting personally, when my daughter Zahara, who is from Ethiopia, was hospitalized for a medical procedure, the nurse told me to call her ‘if she turns pink near her incisions,’” Jolie said. “I stood looking blankly at her, not sure she understood what was wrong with what she had said. When she left the room, I had a talk with my daughter, both of us knowing that we would have to look for signs of infection based on our own knowledge, not what the nurse had said, despite her undoubted good intentions.”
In her op-ed, she calls for new solutions regarding diversity and representation in health care. Jolie mentions that her family has “access to high-quality medical care” but that “simple diagnoses are missed because of race and continued prioritization of white skin in medicine.”
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