[Racialised discrimination in health care, a distant consequence of slavery]

Although many health care providers are convinced, in the name of their ethics and deontology, that they are doing their best to treat all their patients equally, a certain unconscious and structural racism is nevertheless at work. Research in the United States and France has shown that there is a difference in treatment between 'white' and 'black' patients, which penalises the latter. The violence of discrimination, which we do not talk about enough, is therefore very much present. Why is it so deeply rooted in society? What if its roots go back to slavery?