MM#18 Without Consent
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She walked into one of the only hospitals in Baltimore that would treat her.
A surgeon took a sample of her tissue without asking.
Without telling her.
She never knew.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks. Her cells went on to help develop the polio vaccine, the COVID-19 vaccine, and countless other medical breakthroughs. They generated billions of dollars in profit.
Yet, her own family couldn't even afford health insurance.
In this episode, we trace the century-long habit of a medical system that looked at Black patients and saw something other than people... and ask the question American medicine has never fully answered:
Who paid for all of this progress?
🎧 Take a bite of this Morbid Morsel.
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