Access to heart failure resources as a person of color
Heart failure patient Tricia shares the barrier she has faced while seeking heart failure resources as a person of color.
Transcript
So it's very important to me that we have doctors that look like us, and we have access to them.
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I wasn't educated on heart failure or pulmonary hypertension.
I had no clue. I don't live in a underserved community, so to speak. But I didn't see anything about heart failure or heart issues
in my area. In underserved communities, there's no education.
There is no awareness. And then a lot of times, with getting treatment, the places that you go to get the treatment, they're way out.
You don't have transportation. You can go down the rabbit hole for Black and Brown people. We don't receive the messages that we
should be receiving about our diets, how we eat, like soul food, feel good food.
A lot of times, that feel good food is contributing to our community not feeling good.
Where it's important to me that there are African-American doctors, physicians,
available and accessible to the Black and Brown community, because I think that we already
have this trust issue. We're paranoid. And that could be one of the reasons
why we will not go to the doctor. Me, I haven't seen an African-American doctor
in years. It's like, where are they? Where are they? So I think it will make a difference.
And it's important, very important. [MUSIC PLAYING]
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