Medical Experiments on silenced people

The horrors of doctors' visits are small stories spread as kids that have a small grain of truth to them: not all medical practices are made to aid the indiviual practiced on relief from his or her symptoms. As I read through the article, listened to the recording, and watched the clip in class, I realized how hard small groups of populations in the US have it. According to last week's articles, archeologists tried to justify the white-male superiority by the comparative use of anatomy. I started thinking that it was medically incorrect to use a specific race that is only represents a small portion of the whole racial spectrum that the US encompasses. How can researchers apply the effects that one race has to a specific illness, vacination, or other medical phenomenon to all the other races? The human body is a complex organism that should not be generalized. Also, how can these people be relaesed from their suffering. According to the article, organizations reviewing the actions of the research did not perform their investigation deep enough to find the truth in the matter. Hardly any of the patients were called for a follow up after the complaint had been filed for malpractice. Would it have been too hard to just make a follow-through?
While learning about these experiences that groups of people went through, I tried to come up with ways that the average cictzen could prevent this. We certainly couldn't call everyone who has a doctor's appointment up to see how the visit went. We also can't go into the reports of medical studies. Also, the amount of time and effort needed to accomplish this (assuming that the resources were available to the general public) would be huge. The journalists who end up writing these articles and reporting the news to the public have a long up-hill battle to fight. I commend them for their effort. They have to first find clues that such abuse is happening. Then hard-core evidence must be found-- this can be hard when the studies hide themselves quite well and refuse to release detailed information. After the article is written, someone must publish it. How many newspapers are willing to print a controversial story on the front-page? Not many, I believe. I am happy a story like Tuskegee could come out to the public, but how many stories have not had the effect that Tuskegee has had? How long will it take for all this to be put behind us? It's scary to think about. When can doctors be trusted to just heal people without getting extra money for it? After all this new information, I am scared to step into a doctor's office and wonder if I could ever be one myself.