The Night I Almost Died In The ER
Nurse A saw a coloured man in his 30s, with no identification, presenting symptoms of vomitting, urinating and pain, and assumed I that the pain I was experiencing must not be valid. Is it because I didn’t present in a way appropriate to her liking (a liking which I could love to understand as she choose to work as an ER nurse)? Is it because she is used to seeing other POCs come in with similar symptoms who might be on drugs? Off the streets? Does that make them, or me, any less human? Do they, or I, deserve any less care? Any less respect? Any less compassion?