Melissa Thomas*
Nurse Midwife
Melissa Thomas is a Black nurse midwife working in a major metropolitan area who has attended over 350 births in her career spanning over a decade in primarily hospital settings. She came on the podcast anonymously and her name has been changed to protect her identity.
Listen to her full length one-on-one interview on Patreon.com/TajaLindley
Interview length: 01:03:48
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May 25, 2022
All Black Everything
Is a diverse healthcare workforce enough to eradicate racism in medicine? The short is: no. Using race to remedy racism is not enough. And let's talk about why with four Black providers in reproductive health: an OBGYN, a nurse midwife, a traditional midwife, and a midwifery student. Tune in to hear the benefits of adding more Black folks to the healthcare workforce, as well as how this diversity-based approach is an incomplete strategy to remedy health inequity, including: The ways...