Stereotypes & Labels
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's show is on stereotypes and labeling and how health is affected by it. Should be an interesting show. It's with our gang, the Health Chatter gang. Everybody's going to chime in as best they can with some stories or ideas about this subject. It certainly is an interesting one. We have a great crew, Maddie Levine-Wolfe, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, do great background research for us on all of these shows, as does Sharon and Nygaard, who also does our marketing. We have Matthew Campbell, who's our person behind the scenes, who does all our technical work, getting these shows out to you, the listening audience with great music attached. So thank you to you as well.
We have Barry Baines, who's our medical advisor. on our show today and also provides insights from a medical perspective. And then, of course, there's Clarence Jones, my great colleague who helps me with these shows. We co-host these shows together with the help of Human Partnership, who is a great community health organization. highly recommend our listening audience check them out. It's an interesting perspective that they take addressing health from a community perspective. You can check them out at humanpartnership.org and check us out at healthchatterpodcast.com. You can see all our research. You can provide a review, insights, questions, et cetera, on our website. So feel free to visit it. So today, Show on stereotypes and labeling. This is interesting.
I volunteer at a local hospital in the Twin Cities here. And from time to time, I'll see patients that frankly describe themselves particular ways. And it dawned on me, does that affect how health is delivered? And frankly, the question kind of bothered me. And then it came, I called it labeling at that point. And then when we were discussing the whole concept, I think it was Barry, I think you brought up the idea of maybe it's how we create stereotypes. And so I think we kind of put these both together. Aaron did our background, research on this. And so thank you, Erin. And she provided an interesting little story. And she recommended that I read it. And I did read it. And I want to share it with you, the listening audience. And it was from a LinkedIn. And this person said, I attended a wedding a while back of a beautiful young couple. It would have and could have been a beautiful wedding, but I'm afraid the pastor conducting the wedding ceremony spoiled it for me and for several guests.
You see, he carried on and on about wearing makeup, having a drink, or having tattoos are all sins. I wear makeup, I have tattoos, and naturally being At a wedding, we toasted the bride and groom with champagne. The hell we go. This got me thinking about stereotypes and labels we give people. How our prejudices can prevent us from getting to know and understand another person. How we allow society to dictate what is right, good, and normal. Interesting perspective on that. Matthew, I know you have a story that you said you'd be willing to share with our listening audience and our podcast today too.
Yeah, of course. I think when we start talking about labels, we can self-identify those or people can impose those. And each come with their own set of connotations. And we all bring our own set of ideas and stereotypes to those. And so... several years back now when I was first looking for healthcare, I was freshly 18. I was trying to do the right thing, go see a physician. I was looking, I was interested in getting on PrEP, which I'm sure most people in the public health arena are aware of. And so I went to my physician, this is in South Carolina. It was my hometown. And I was immediately ostracized almost for even asking about it. My physician didn't really know what it was. They had never really prescribed it.
And then all of a sudden I was labeled as less than other, and I had a behavioral problem that needed to be fixed rather than providing me with the healthcare that I was looking for. And so I think those labels and how people perceive labels can really shape the healthcare that is then provided. And I like to think that physicians are above casting stones or stigma or all of those things.
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