Miss Ever's Boys
Video Reflection- Miss Evers boys
The film Miss Evers’ Boys was based on the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in Black Males” in the U.S. In a government study, black men with syphilis were offered treatment and records were kept on their progress. They got better. Suddenly, the funding for the program was cut. Some time later, a new program was begun. In this one, the black syphilitic men were studied and treated but the treatments were placebos. Originally, the promise was that, upon completion of the program, the patients would be given the real treatments. In reality, so much data was derived from these men that the program continued for years with no real treatment. Eventually, the men began to die off and their minds and bodies died due to the damage of the disease.
Miss Evers’ boys, was a great movie that helped me understand the pain the four men and Nurse Evers went through. It educates the viewer on the mistreatment and still existing racism in the 1930s and shows how the U.S. government considered blacks inferior to whites even after the end of slavery. It helped me see how influential race was; you didn’t receive proper treatment medically or otherwise, just because you were black. It is notable, that these four black men had to suffer through the syphilis disease for years, in order to get any kind of attention from the U.S. government. I can’t help but wonder that if these were four white men, they would’ve been treated first after the study was conducted, just like the black men were promised. After watching this film, I came to realize that it’s my responsibility as a person in healthcare and of this current generation to make everyone aware of all the discrimination and inequalities that went on in the medical field.
The film Miss Evers’ Boys was based on the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in Black Males” in the U.S. In a government study, black men with syphilis were offered treatment and records were kept on their progress. They got better. Suddenly, the funding for the program was cut. Some time later, a new program was begun. In this one, the black syphilitic men were studied and treated but the treatments were placebos. Originally, the promise was that, upon completion of the program, the patients would be given the real treatments. In reality, so much data was derived from these men that the program continued for years with no real treatment. Eventually, the men began to die off and their minds and bodies died due to the damage of the disease.
Miss Evers’ boys, was a great movie that helped me understand the pain the four men and Nurse Evers went through. It educates the viewer on the mistreatment and still existing racism in the 1930s and shows how the U.S. government considered blacks inferior to whites even after the end of slavery. It helped me see how influential race was; you didn’t receive proper treatment medically or otherwise, just because you were black. It is notable, that these four black men had to suffer through the syphilis disease for years, in order to get any kind of attention from the U.S. government. I can’t help but wonder that if these were four white men, they would’ve been treated first after the study was conducted, just like the black men were promised. After watching this film, I came to realize that it’s my responsibility as a person in healthcare and of this current generation to make everyone aware of all the discrimination and inequalities that went on in the medical field.