By Victor Omondi
Angelina Jolie has revealed that her children have been victims of the weak spot in the medical field, as published in Times Magazine. The 46-year-old actress revealed this on Wednesday, June 23, as she interviewed Malone Mukwende, a medical student on a mission to teach other to-be doctors how conditions and diseases can manifest in non-white patients.
Mukwende began his mission after finding out that the data used in the teaching, including images, were based on studies of white patients, which means it could lead to misdiagnosis, suffering, and even death of non-white patients.
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It’s in response to Mukwende’s work that Jolie confirmed she’d witnessed the issue firsthand with her kids, whom she shares with her ex-husband Brad Pitt. Together they’ve adopted Maddox, 19, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 15, and 12-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
“I have children from different backgrounds, and I know when there was a rash that everybody got, it looked drastically different depending on their skin color. But whenever I looked at medical charts, the reference point was always white skin,” said Jolie.
She shared her experience last year when her eldest daughter Zahara, Black, had surgery. “Recently my daughter, Zahara, whom I adopted from Ethiopia, had surgery, and afterward a nurse told me to call them if her skin ‘turned pink.’”
