--- title: Lack of Black Doctors Fuels Black Doubts About Medical Care description: Amid surging gun violence, Black people in hospitals are often treated as suspects, not victims—one consequence of a lack of Black doctors canonical: https://time.com/6103401/hospitals-racism-black-patients/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2021-10-13T11:00:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:49:03.417Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Shot by a stranger but treated like a criminal in the ER og:description: 'There’s a notion in emergency rooms that young Black men don’t just get shot, but that they get themselves shot' og:url: https://time.com/6103401/hospitals-racism-black-patients/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33d2e511cd8833cb/698a1d75b21a9c395f505364/greg-jackson-gun-violence-hospital-racial-disparity.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: greg-jackson-gun-violence-hospital-racial-disparity og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Shot by a stranger but treated like a criminal in the ER twitter:description: 'There’s a notion in emergency rooms that young Black men don’t just get shot, but that they get themselves shot' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33d2e511cd8833cb/698a1d75b21a9c395f505364/greg-jackson-gun-violence-hospital-racial-disparity.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # He Was Shot by a Stranger but Treated Like a Criminal When He Reached the ER > Sponsored content. 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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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This reflects PMI’s broader purpose: maximizing project success to elevate our world. ### Sources * Project Management Institute | [pmi.org](/c/pmi-2026-q3/home?i=ccebc263-9743-4a2e-bc0b-c4ddc4ba7b17&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey—Fourteenth Edition" | [pmi.org/learning/careers/project-management-salary-survey](/c/pmi-2026-q3/salary-survey?i=ccebc263-9743-4a2e-bc0b-c4ddc4ba7b17&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Global Project Management Talent Gap" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/global-project-management-talent-gap](/c/pmi-2026-q3/talent-gap?i=ccebc263-9743-4a2e-bc0b-c4ddc4ba7b17&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Maximizing Project Success" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/project-success?i=ccebc263-9743-4a2e-bc0b-c4ddc4ba7b17&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse Report 2025: Boosting Business Acumen” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/boosting-business-acumen](/c/pmi-2026-q3/business-acumen?i=ccebc263-9743-4a2e-bc0b-c4ddc4ba7b17&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse of the Profession® 2026: Driving Success in Complex Projects” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/driving-success-in-complex-projects](/c/pmi-2026-q3/complex-projects?i=ccebc263-9743-4a2e-bc0b-c4ddc4ba7b17&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Step Up: Redefining the Path to Project Success with M.O.R.E.” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/path-to-project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/more-mindset?i=ccebc263-9743-4a2e-bc0b-c4ddc4ba7b17&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI Education Foundation, PMIEF 2024 Annual Report, [pmi.org PMIEF 2024 Annual Report (PDF)](/c/pmi-2026-q3/pmief-report?i=ccebc263-9743-4a2e-bc0b-c4ddc4ba7b17&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) ### FAQ structured data (JSON-LD, optional)  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Oct 13, 2021 11:00 AM UTC  Greg Jackson, gun violence survivor and National Advocacy Director with the Community Justice Action Fund, speaks at the National Mall in Washington D.C. on April 29, 2021 . Greg Jackson, gun violence survivor and National Advocacy Director with the Community Justice Action Fund, speaks at the National Mall in Washington D.C. on April 29, 2021 .Leah Millis—Reuters/Alamy  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Oct 13, 2021 11:00 AM UTC When Greg Jackson Jr. thinks about the night he was shot, the most painful part of the memory isn’t that he almost died. It’s not the six surgeries he underwent, the half-year bedridden, or the image of his younger cousin using a shirt as a tourniquet to save his life. It’s not even the thought of the gunman. What brings on a flood of resentment is his reception at the hospital. After he was rolled off the ambulance on a stretcher, still clad in his bloody clothes, police officers—not doctors or nurses—greeted him and began peppering him with questions. Where was he when the shots rang out? What role did he play in the altercation? Why was he out so late? “I was seen as a criminal first and a person second,” says Jackson, who had been walking home from an engagement party with his cousins when he was shot on April 21, 2013, in Washington, D.C. They turned a corner and startled two men who were arguing. One of the men panicked and opened fire, opening two arteries in Jackson’s right calf. --- > “I was seen as a criminal first and a person second.” --- Jackson says he endured three rounds of questioning before he was medically assessed by hospital staff, who did not intervene with police. By the time he was rushed into the operating room, doctors told him he’d lost so much blood that without surgery he would have had about 26 minutes left to live. Jackson was 28 at the time, overseeing gun-violence prevention efforts for then President Barack Obama’s nonprofit, Organizing for Action. But in the ER, he was a young Black man, he says, treated as a suspect rather than a bystander. “I’ll just never forget knowing that I could have died while being interrogated,” he says. ## ‘A ripe space for biases and disparities’ Eight years later, gun violence in the U.S. has surged to record levels. Homicides rose nearly 30% in 2020 from 2019—the highest jump year-to-year in the FBI’s recorded history, according to[ figures](https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2020-crime-statistics) from the agency.[ Exacerbated by the pandemic and a convergence of other factors](https://time.com/6095664/children-killed-in-shootings-pandemic/), the spike is disproportionately affecting Black Americans, who advocates say suffer [18 times](https://www.everytown.org/issues/gun-violence-black-americans/) more gunshot injuries than white people, as well as what comes after. **Read More:** [_Children and Teenagers Are Being Shot in Record Numbers_](https://time.com/6095664/children-killed-in-shootings-pandemic/) In Philadelphia, Dr. Theodore Corbin has witnessed firsthand how young Black men with gunshot or stab wounds are treated as suspects even when they arrive in emergency rooms as victims. As a Black man, Corbin says he speaks up in those moments of injustice, but some colleagues do not. “The emergency department is a very fast-paced and dynamic environment,” says Corbin, an emergency medicine professor at Drexel University College of Medicine. “There is a ripe space for biases and disparities to show themselves.” That dynamic represents deeper levels of institutional racism that go beyond the actions of any one provider, according to Dr. John Rich, a professor at the Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health. “There’s a notion that young Black men don’t just get shot. They get themselves shot,” Rich says. “The providers, they believe that it could never happen to them unless they were somehow looking for it.”  Dr. Alaina Geary during a vigil in Boston on June 4, 2020, in support of racial justice after the killing of George Floyd. Craig F. Walker—Boston Globe/ Getty Images It’s no coincidence this attitude exists, researchers say, given who the providers are. Of the roughly 919,000 active physicians in the nation, only about 5% are Black, while more than 56% are white, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) most recent[ figures](https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data/figure-18-percentage-all-active-physicians-race/ethnicity-2018) for those whose race or ethnicity is known. This spring, a UCLA[ study](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-021-06745-1) found that it took 120 years for the percentage of Black doctors in the U.S. to climb to 5% from 1%, and that the percentage of doctors who are Black men hasn’t increased at all since 1940\. In emergency rooms, the diversity gap is even wider. Out of more than 43,000 physicians practicing emergency medicine in 2018, about 69% were white and 4.5% were Black, according to a[ study](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32863121/) published in the _American Journal of Emergency Medicine_ in 2020. **In the year and a half since** the COVID-19 pandemic began, the impact of race on medical care has been impossible to miss. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says Black Americans are[ twice as likely](https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html) as white Americans to die from COVID-19 and even more likely to be hospitalized from the virus. Yet, Black and Hispanic people remain less likely to be vaccinated against the disease than people in other racial and ethnic groups, according to the[ CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/vaccine-equity.html), the[ Kaiser Family Foundation](https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/) and several[ studies](https://www.rand.org/news/press/2021/03/01.html). They may also be less inclined to have their children vaccinated, which public health workers worry will further render Black families more vulnerable to the virus. In a new[ survey](https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11725-5) of more than 1,400 Illinois parents of children under 18, researchers found that the demographic groups most severely affected by the pandemic had the highest rates of hesitancy toward a COVID-19 vaccine for children. Nearly half of Black parents were reluctant to have their child vaccinated, compared to 26% of white parents, the survey found, attributing vaccine hesitancy to mistrust in the government and in research. As a reason for their distrust,[ many Black adults cite](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5309123/) the 1932-1972[ Tuskegee Experiment](https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm), in which hundreds of Black men in Alabama were used to study syphilis without their knowledge or consent. But experts say another cause of widespread mistrust is more contemporary: the scarcity of Black doctors nationwide. “It’s really dangerous and it’s sad,” says Dr. Rachel Villanueva, president of the National Medical Association, which represents Black physicians and patients. “This is the time when individuals really have to have trust in their doctors and in public health officials.” **Read more:** [_Black Veterinarians Say The Field Needs Racial Diversity_](https://time.com/5901334/black-veterinarians-diversity/) Study after study has shown that racial inequities permeate health care. A widely cited 2002[ report](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25032386/) from the Institute of Medicine documented numerous medical procedures or conditions for which Black people received inferior care, including heart disease and cancer. “These are not just conspiracy theories,” Villanueva says. “These are things that people have lived through.” In September, Yale researchers found that in emergency departments, even Black children are more likely than white children to be[ subdued with restraints](https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/yale-study-black-children-restrained-emergency-department/) due to perceived threats to themselves and others. And when it comes to pain management, a new[ study](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2784104?utm%5Fsource=For%5FThe%5FMedia&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=ftm%5Flinks&utm%5Fterm=091021) found that from 2007 to 2014, during the early stages of the national opioid crisis, primary care physicians prescribed opioids more often to their white patients who complained of new lower back pain than to their Black, Asian and Hispanic patients. Patients of color were more likely to get Advil, or some other less powerful painkiller. Dr. Dan Ly, the study’s author, says the findings indicate that physicians’ bias likely led them to determine that the “pain of certain patients deserves opioids and the pain of others does not.” ## Living with their pain For Rachael Jetter, a 29-year-old from Pennsylvania, that means living with the unpredictable bouts of sharp, shooting facial pain caused by trigeminal neuralgia. During her first emergency room visit in 2016, shortly after being diagnosed with the chronic condition, a doctor handed her 800 mg. of ibuprofen before sending her home. She was prescribed nothing on the second visit in 2017. When Jetter scrolled through her trigeminal neuralgia Facebook support groups, the disparities were hard to ignore. Most members were white and posted positively about ER visits for their flare-ups. They received opioid prescriptions and compassion, says Jetter, who got neither. “It is not possible to be Black and have any kind of chronic illness and not notice the disparity,” says Jetter, who left those support groups because of the disparities. When the pain comes, Jetter says it feels like electric shocks to her face that sometimes last an hour. She can’t touch her face, blow her nose or wear glasses until the pain recedes. “I shouldn’t have to live like this,” Jetter says. **Read more:** [_Why So Many Americans Still Mistrust the COVID-19 Vaccines_](https://time.com/5925467/covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy/) In Virginia, Jaime Sanders, 43, also thinks twice before seeing a doctor even when the throbbing pain of her chronic migraine attacks induces vomiting and diarrhea. Most times she’s sought emergency care in the past, she says, the doctors assumed she was faking her pain to get narcotics. To be taken more seriously, Sanders started putting on mascara and deliberately looking more presentable before leaving her home. “If I showed up in my pajamas and my bonnet and slippers, they might assume I’m low-income, and they would treat me less,” she says. “It’s already hard enough when I do show up looking polished.” She weighs whether the visit is worth fighting the searing head pain to make the extra effort. Most of the time it’s not. “I’d rather stay home and suffer through it,” she says.  Jaime Sanders Courtesy Jaime Sanders --- > “If I showed up in my pajamas and my bonnet and slippers, they might assume I'm low-income, and they would treat me less.” --- **Not two years after** he was shot, Greg Jackson Jr. not only had learned to walk again, he’d completed his first half-marathon, even though he’d never been a runner. “I wanted to prove to myself that I could grow beyond this moment and not let it slow me down,” he says. In August, he became the new executive director of the Community Justice Action Fund, a Black-led nonprofit that works to end gun violence. The work brought him in touch with a lot of people with tales of their own of how unfair treatment in a hospital compounded their trauma and worsened their chances of a healthy recovery. He worries the encounters could actually fuel more violence. “When you don’t feel like your government or your hospitals care about saving your life, you have to do what you can to protect yourself,” he says. “So if we don’t do better by victims, we’re basically inviting them to act out.” ## The potential ripple effect The ripple effect may be huge. According to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks shooting incidents, at least 15,000 people have been killed by guns already this year, and more than 30,000 have been injured. Jackson wonders how many who reached ER waiting rooms were subjected to the hostility he recalls facing as he fought for his life. Villaneuva says health outcomes improve in communities of color when the healthcare workforce better reflects patient populations, but there’s the added hurdle that comes with a lack of role models or mentors. “We always say, ‘You can’t be what you can’t see,’” she says. The pandemic hasn’t helped there, either. The AAMC says the U.S. could be short by 124,000 physicians by 2034\. Burnout, worsened by the pandemic, could cause physicians to cut back their hours or retire earlier than normal, AAMC President David Skorton told a Senate committee in May. But a national movement for racial justice, sparked by[ George Floyd’s killing](https://time.com/5847967/george-floyd-protests-trump/) in May 2020, has given many in the medical world flecks of hope. Villanueva, Corbin and Rich have all seen colleagues pause to reflect on their biases while treating patients of color. And a large swath of medical organizations have begun to look inward and question whether more could be done to improve equity and grow the number of underrepresented minority groups, Villanueva says. On Sept. 21, the AAMC announced it has[ created a center for health justice](https://www.aamchealthjustice.org/) to address health inequities through research and collaboration with public health and community organizations. “It’s made folks more aware of what has been in our faces for so long,” Corbin says. “Slowly in some spaces, it is happening.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6103401/hospitals-racism-black-patients/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6103401/hospitals-racism-black-patients/"},"headline":"He Was Shot by a Stranger but Treated Like a Criminal When He Reached the ER","datePublished":"2021-10-13T11:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:49:03.417Z","description":"Only about 5% of practicing doctors in the U.S. are Black, and more than 56% are white, a situation that enables racism in hospital care and fuels Black mistrust of the system as COVID-19 and gun violence take a disproportionate toll on communities of color","url":"https://time.com/6103401/hospitals-racism-black-patients/","keywords":["Health Care","Guns","COVID-19","nationpod","healthscienceclimate"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33d2e511cd8833cb/698a1d75b21a9c395f505364/greg-jackson-gun-violence-hospital-racial-disparity.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33d2e511cd8833cb/698a1d75b21a9c395f505364/greg-jackson-gun-violence-hospital-racial-disparity.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"greg-jackson-gun-violence-hospital-racial-disparity","caption":"greg jackson","creditText":"Leah Millis—Reuters/Alamy","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/health-care/","name":"Health Care"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6103401/hospitals-racism-black-patients/","name":"He Was Shot by a Stranger but Treated Like a Criminal When He Reached the ER"}}]}] ```