Black health care providers look to end treatment inequality

After her concerns about abdominal pain during her pregnancy were dismissed by a white doctor, Chantina Wilson said she found a sympathetic ear with an OB-GYN at Stroger Hospital. That doctor, a Black woman, correctly diagnosed her appendicitis. (Sun-Times file)

When Chantina Wilson was six months pregnant, she started having abdominal pains. She scheduled an appointment with her doctor, a white man, who told her she was having Braxton-Hicks contractions.

But this wasn’t Wilson’s first pregnancy. She knew what contractions felt like. Still, her doctor ignored her protests and sent her home with prescription-strength Tylenol.