“I was pregnant and in crisis. All the Doctors and Nurses saw was an incompetent Black Woman.” Imagine being a pregnant black woman, and doctors think you are Incompetent. When it comes to the health field, black women are treated wrongfully. This list goes from being mistreated, mishandled, ignored, or denied. In this case, a young black lady went to the hospital due to abnormal bleeding. The doctor insisted that was due to her "being fat," and the bleeding was from spotting. He then sent her home. Doctors are not supposed to assume weight has anything to do with bleeding. Doctors must tell anyone about the issue and how to resolve the ongoing problem. Thesis: Black women feel disempowered by their interactions with doctors and nurses. This article is about a pregnant black woman named Tressie McMillan Cottom. Mrs. …show more content…
She just wanted help and answers about what was going on with her body and her unborn baby. Pathos is used to mix feelings that will steer the audience in a certain way. A more straightforward definition is “appeal of emotion,” or persuading the audience to accept certain emotions that the author wants. In this article, pathos is used relatively. In these quotes, McMillan showed the audience multiple signs of emotion. She said, “After several days of labor pains that no one ever diagnosed because the pain was in my butt and not my back, I could not hold off labor anymore. I was wheeled into a delivery operating room, where I slipped in and out of consciousness. At one point, I awoke and screamed, “Motherfucker.” The nurse told me to watch my language. I begged for an epidural. After three eternities, an anesthesiologist arrived. He glared at me and said that if I weren’t quiet, he would leave, and I would not get any pain relief. Just as a contraction crested, the needle pierced my spine, and I tried desperately to be still and quiet so he would not leave there that