Black Doctor's Viral Thread Highlights Exactly Why We 'Need More Black Men In Medicine'

We know we need more diversity in the western world, which has largely been whitewashed over the course of the past two thousand years.

Twitter user @Oga_DoctorBlue shared an anecdote about a recent patient who had come in with severe weakness in his legs:

Quickly, he realized he was the only person of color in the room:

And he was glad that he asked:

A simple chance to connect with the patient is really all it took to get him to understand exactly what was going on in his brain.

And the internet agrees: it matters.

According to The New York Times, black men have the lowest life expectancy of any ethnic sub-group in the United States as a whole. If this small anecdote shows us anything, it's that the key to keeping black men healthy might be having more black men in the medical field. It could just save lives.

H/T: Indy100, Twitter