The Doctor Found Me Funny

The Doctor Found Me Funny

Explores the emotions tied to a childhood memory that is indicative of a larger still ongoing problem of how the medical field continues to minimize and trivialize the pain of black women. The piece depicts the earliest memory I have of being treated less than by a medical professional. A pediatrician laughing at my severe asthmatic cough and struggle to breath at age four. This and other experiences like it lead to an aversion of voicing physical pain I knew would not be prioritized and a reluctance to seek help from physicians. Finding it better to feel pain in silence than to be ignored or become an un consenting source of entertainment.