We can make a study say whatever we want depending on the message we want to convey. What Baptiste Beaulieu did, Wednesday October 29, on France Inter. The novelist and general practitioner explained that health professionals “ learned poorly to care for minorities ».
To illustrate his point, he indicated that in the United States, according to a study published in 2020, black children had “ two to three times more likely to die in the first year of life than white babies and that this difference disappeared when black newborns were cared for by black doctors ».
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An interview to denounce supposed systematic racism on the part of doctors in Western countries except that a more recent study published in the same scientific journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which published the original study in 2020 , proves that there is no difference in the care of black babies by white doctors or black doctors in the United States.
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Elements not taken into account
In a column published in MarianneThursday October 30, Vincent Lautard, nurse, health law lawyer and consultant in the health and social sector, highlights the biased comments of Baptiste Beaulieu.
To do this, it takes up the 2024 study in which experts detected elements not taken into account by those of 2020 which clearly showed that there was no discrimination against black babies by white doctors. They found that 2020 experts had completely overlooked low birth weight babies.
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According to 2024 experts, “ the mortality rate is very high (80% mortality) if the newborn weighs 500 grams or less and drops to a level close to zero for newborns weighing more than 1,500 grams “. With this data, there was no longer any difference in the care of babies by a black doctor or a white doctor.
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