Last night in A&E shook me up tbh. I know that black people& #39;s - especially black women& #39;s - pain isn& #39;t taken seriously. But the callousness of the nurse at reception who had watched my mum limp towards her in agony... She didn& #39;t give a fuck and insisted my mum couldn& #39;t be helped.
She also sought to blame my mum for her own pain? "Are you SURE you& #39;ve taken the painkillers correctly? You have to do it every 4 hours."
We had to fight just to get into the fucking A&E waiting room. Where she left us for hours, knowing the pain my mum was in.

I had to flag down a doctor walking past and make him do something. He (a white south african https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Face with rolling eyes">) fobbed us off like "oh we& #39;re busy". It wasn& #39;t busy.
There was not an ounce of compassion in his voice. Meanwhile my mum is weeping with pain.

But then, as if by magic, A&E was suddenly not busy https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Face with rolling eyes"> because he came back 2 mins later and got my mum to a doctor asap.

God must& #39;ve pricked his conscience.
You see how you have to advocate for yourself as a black person in these institutions? Because your pain is immaterial to these ppl.

If I hadn& #39;t grabbed him we could still be there waiting to be seen ffs.
After mum went through to be seen, i noticed another black woman in front of us. She flagged down the SA doctor too. She said she was having chest pains and needed relief. He said cruelly "why didn& #39;t you take something before you came here?"

What a nasty man tbh.
He then said he& #39;d get her some paracetamol. But like wow... a black woman is having chest pains at 4am in A&E and you& #39;re blaming her for it? Would he do that to a middle class white woman?
Honestly I do not feel safe in the NHS after last night. These people seem to enjoy black suffering.
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