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Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 1: I want to introduce to you Jay Marion Sims. They

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Speaker 1: call him the father of modern gynecology. That man was

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Speaker 1: just Satan in scrubs.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know. Maybe I didn't know. I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Jay Marion Sims. He developed life saving medical techniques back

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Speaker 1: in the eighteen hundreds, but the way he did it wild.

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Speaker 1: He experimented on enslaved black women without anesthesia, like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm about to cut you open, all right, but don't worry.

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Speaker 1: You'll be fine because you Blacks don't feel pain quite

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Speaker 1: like I did. That's literally what he believed, and people

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Speaker 1: let him get away with it. Three women have been

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Speaker 1: documented Anarca, Lucy, and Betsy, and these three women went

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Speaker 1: through hell. Anarca alone had over thirty surgeries, thirty with

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Speaker 1: no anesthesia, and Sims called it science. And you know

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Speaker 1: what he got for it, a statue in Central Park.

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Speaker 1: Like imagine going for a jog and seeing a dude

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Speaker 1: being honored for torturing black women. That was a reality

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Speaker 1: before twenty eighteen, because in twenty eighteen, activists showed up

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Speaker 1: in bloody hospital gowns so that you could visualize these

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Speaker 1: atrocities and pretty much said, Nah, the statue's gotta go.

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Speaker 1: And guess what they won. The statue got moved to

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Speaker 1: a cemetery, and quite honestly, that's where it belongs. Right beside,

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Speaker 1: Jay Marion Sims is dead Ethics. Now here's where it

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Speaker 1: gets real. You think this was just some old school nonsense, right, Nah,

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Speaker 1: those same eracist ideas are still here, lurking in hospitals

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Speaker 1: like bad Wi Fi studies showed doctors today still think

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Speaker 1: black women feel less pain. That's why black women are

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Speaker 1: three times more likely to die from childbirth complications. Three times. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Karen over there getting extra toleranol for a paper cut.

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Speaker 1: Make it make sense? So what do we do? First,

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Speaker 1: stop giving shady people statues? But more importantly, we gotta

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Speaker 1: listen when people say they're in pain or need help.

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Speaker 1: We need to believe them because if Anarca, Lucy and

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Speaker 1: Betsy could survive all that, the least we can do

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Speaker 1: is make sure that nobody else has to. And I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 2: I didn't