Similarities Between The Other Wes Moore

The Other Wes Moore is a book about two young African-American lives that share the same name, Wes Moore. Both Wes Moores grew up with similarities, they both grew up in the same hometown. One of the Wes Moore is free and the other one is spending his life in jail. They both grew up without fathers. The author's father died in front of him when he was just three years old and the other Wes Moore barley knew his dad. The Author's father wasn’t there because he couldn’t be, and the other Wes Moore, father wasn’t there because he chose not to be. Both mothers were working hard towards setting their families and to support and care for their sons.

Looking back at it all with the metamorphosis in place no doubt this story speaks to me on our own individual level of experiences from life as well. Two men born in the city of Baltimore with the same name comes down to examining our own decisions in life one could think. However I’m adamant of this particular journey of the two Wes Moore’s. The author Moore makes me differentiate between and use my own comparison with some similarities. However there are less similarity and less comparison as I take time to reflect for me. Interesting as it may be, Moore the author and Rhodes Scholar how inevitable with great success. Then Wes the other one is schedule to spend the rest of his life in prison.

    Humans have come to a conclusion that all lives are different, but all go through many hardships and tragedies. The impact from a slight difference can vary to be very vast to very small, such a slight difference, however, can change a person’s life as a whole. In the book, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore there is a difference that can be identified between the author’s life and that of the other Wes. This difference, though can be very critical and is ultimately able to lead to a path of triumph or failure for an individual. The lack of involvement a mother has for their child can fundamentally deprive them from succeeding, and parent involvement has the opportunity to

According to the text, “several studies have shown that black patients were treated and hospitalized at later stages of their illness than white patients. And once hospitalized, they got fewer pain medications, and had higher mortality rates.” (Skloot 64). Even Though it was the time of segregation, the doctors were supposed to treat their patients equally. The author stated that many black patients were just glad to receive treatment at the time of discrimination.

The title of the current event news is Hospital’ing while black: New study shows black people receive cold shoulders from doctors. In the article, author Clutch brings attention to how people of color are treated in American hospitals. A study by the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management found that doctors treat their white patients better than their black patients. Black actors were used in the study to pretend to be patients with serious medical conditions. The findings revealed that when communicating and interacting with patients, doctors showed little sympathy towards their black patients. For example, the doctors often touch, stood closer, and made eye contact with their white patients, but not with their black patients. What is more,

In today’s society, the variation of social, cultural, political, and economic life mirrors our Founding Fathers dreams. Since then, America has learned to adjust and accept every citizen's differences with the help of The Bill of Rights, US Constitution, Northwest Ordinance, and the Declaration of Independence. As these documents represent the development of America then, books like the Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore reflect the variations of social, cultural, political, and economic life today. Over time, the definition of being an American has evolved and molded with society to make what the United States citizens know now.

African Americans weren’t considered to be citizens until 1868 and weren’t given voting rights until 1870. In the book, Lacks was only allowed to go to John Hopkins because no other hospital took blacks at the time. In American hospitals, according to author Rebecca Skloot, “studies have shown that black patients were treated and hospitalized at later stages of their illnesses than white patients…once hospitalized, they get fewer medications, and had higher mortality rates’ (Skloot 64). Their treatment wasn’t up to par with what white citizens had. Hospitals like John Hopkins probably didn’t get as much funding as the regular hospitals to treat blacks.

Wes Moore: Two different people that share the same name and went on very seperate paths. Both Weses had last chances. Wes had the opportunity to get back on the right path, and the other Wes wasn’t very serious about getting on the right path. When Wes was younger he started to get in with the wrong crowd. He had started to hang around with his friend Shea and got caught tagging with him.

Many know of the tune “It’s a Small World” played at the Disney Parks. It’s lyrics repeat, “It’s a small world after all,” over and over until you have it cemented in your brain for eternity (but that’s beside the point). These lyrics connect with the book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, because of how closely connected two men living in Baltimore were. Both men named Wes Moore with a father out of the picture made it an oddly “small world.” But although they had very similar upbringings, their lives took extremely different paths. Three key differences that make them different are: why their fathers weren’t apart of their lives, what they grew up around, and how their mother’s dealt with troubled kids.

According to the video, there are many implications that healthcare professionals face when treating diverse groups in America. It does not matter what healthcare profession you are in there is always going to be diversity with patients and not to forget the professional. In the video, “Unnatural Cases…Is inequality making us sick?” Dr. David and Dr. Collins who are both neonatologist, want to find out why there are more infant mortality, premature babies born to African American women than there are in White American women. Their first assumption was due to economic differences. In the case of Kim Anderson, it proved otherwise. Kim Anderson was a well-educated woman, who was living the American dream. She was well educated, took very good

Discrimination and the differential quality of medical care African-Americans receive are seen in all levels of professional healthcare workers. Dr. Tweedy, a prominent psychiatrist and author of New York Times Bestseller A Black Man in a White Coat, has made claims about the difficulties and differences in healthcare treatment quality African-Americans receive (Weintraub, 2016). Studies from many medical professionals show that African-Americans face lesser quality and differential treatment due to social stigma and racial biases, whether these patients are in the Emergency Department, or seen by different health care professionals, such as registered nurses and surgical clinicians (Pletcher et. al, 2008; Haider et. al, 2015). The accumulation of discrimination, racial biases, and communication barriers between African-American patients and physicians are the reasons why African-Americans receive differential quality in medical care. The most effective way to improve and decrease these quality differences is to be proactive and educate health care workers by improving interpersonal skills and increasing awareness and cultural sensitivity training in both current and future healthcare professional workers.

This was used to create more anxiety, consequently, threatening the patients to feel like African Americans are thought to have more issues compared to white women. It was important to analyze if stereotypes can be a reason why black women utilized less health services in comparison to white women. According to Abdou and Fingerhut (2014), “black women report worrying about stereotypes and feeling like doctors and medical professional treat them differently because of their race or ethnicity” (p.3). It is crucial to address this topic in the nursing field because stereotypes are serving as obstacles in the delivery of excellent patient care. As nurses, it is substantial to maintain integrity and care for others with sincerity and compassion.

This is a prime example of what many black patients witness and experience when attempting to get medical treatment. This racial bias might be intentional, or it might not be, but it still negatively affects the patient’s experience and

In doing so, he pays particularly close attention to black patients and their relations with health care policies and practices. Smedly maintains that blacks are not only the victims of, inpatient and outpatient treatment, racial policies, and other services but also the victims of its consequences. He argues that many health care administrators are agents to a system of inequality that support provider and administrator biases, geographical inequalities, and racial stereotypes (Smedly 2012).

Racial discrimination is rooted in U.S. history. The enslavement of Blacks and murders of Native Americans, by the early Europeans, are representative of this. The context of America’s history with race shapes the minds of physicians both implicitly and overtly (Feagin & Bennefield, 2014). Studies have shown that physicians believe White patients are “more intelligent”, Black patients “lack the drive” to adhere to instructions, and non-White patients cannot be trusted (Feagin & Bennefield, 2014).