No Apparent Distress Summary

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Throughout the book No Apparent Distress by Rachel Pearson, Pearson shows a distinctive difference of diversity and its effects. Pearson’s storytelling illuminates a connection of one’s race and it affects.The typical doctor, white, male, and straight; two of these she was. One’s race determined how you were perceived in the medical world and how you would take on decisions. At the clinic when a woman stepped in based on her physical demographic traits the receptionist and other staff knew how their session would go. The state of Texas mandated that every woman receive counseling before going through an abortion. Pearson then explained how sometimes there was no need for a deep conversation because the women just wanted to get the procedure …show more content…
The hurricane that took place in Galveston affected all of the patients in the hospital gravely; doctors were lost and the injuries worsened. It put a toll on who was going to be ‘first come first serve’ which then transferred into who was wealthier. The higher you were in your economic status the faster you were treated, sometimes not by choice of the doctors but only because you had more money. Susan McCammon came into rescue the ones who couldn’t afford the cost of the treatments. Susan’s first start of recovery was trying to get her patients who needed chemo situated first, then her next plan in action was to get her resident situated for their surgeries to help her. With little to no surgeons willing to work for free Susan’s patients were in danger; one of her cancer patients soon received a letter that Susan will no longer be able to treat them. The The UTMB was no longer going to fund the uninsured. Even with the circumstances known as to why the patients couldn’t afford the treatment their class deprived them from their medicare. Medical treatment was most likely given to the ones who could afford