Posted 9:55 AM by Bonnie

Race and Medicine: Recently on the news was a spot about a new medication that has been developed to treat heart problems in blacks. I learned that black people have more heart problems and different types of heart ailments than white people. The news headline started off stating there was a controversy over this new medication and should medications be developed based on race. One white doctor said it would cause issues because it made it seem as if there were genetic differences between black people and white people. Uh... well... yeah... guess what doc? There are! A black doctor spoke at the college about a year ago and one point he made over and over was white doctors had no business treating black patients because of the genetic differences and white doctors didn't know how to treat black patients. I guess it would go both ways, but that's not what this post is about.

Why shouldn't a drug be developed to treat specific ailments in specific races. That's like saying we shouldn't develop an aids virus because not every gets aids. No one thought anything about developing a drug to treat sickle cell anemia which affects only blacks, so why the uproar over this new drug. Are people just looking for controversy? Just looking for ways to start problems between the races? Let's antagonize people by making it look like we are favoring one race of the other as if there has never been a drug developed that was tested only on white people. Wake up America! Don't get caught up in such foolishness. Just my humble opinion.