This is a behind the scenes photo of a scene of the Mindy Project. I could not find a video, but it shows a group of medical professionals providing a mobile health clinic to the largely Hispanic population in Harlem.
I do not know if any of you watch the Mindy Project (a comedy series that centers around the professional and social life of Dr. Mindy Lahiri), but I found a certain episode especially interesting. In this episode, the doctors had set up a mobile health clinic to go around to do health check ups at Harlem, a city with more people of low socioeconomic status. The doctors work in New York City and typically do not take patients without health insurance. In one of the scenes,the doctors except for Mindy who is not present at the time, are in an unfamiliar environment are then reprimanded by citizens in the town as they hand out flyers and ask passerby's if they want to come in for a health check up. It is interesting how the three white men phrase their question asking women passing by on the streets if "they want their breasts checked." As a result, they are seen as pedophiles and eventually the police comes. It isn't until Mindy Lahiri comes that she is able to clear up the situation and try to show that they as doctors are only trying to help by explaining what they are here to do and that no one is being forced to have a health check up.
Similar to mobile health clinics in the Bay today, it is evident that without community interaction or first gaining the trust of the community, it is impossible to help or give them the necessary resources.
I do not know if any of you watch the Mindy Project (a comedy series that centers around the professional and social life of Dr. Mindy Lahiri), but I found a certain episode especially interesting. In this episode, the doctors had set up a mobile health clinic to go around to do health check ups at Harlem, a city with more people of low socioeconomic status. The doctors work in New York City and typically do not take patients without health insurance. In one of the scenes,the doctors except for Mindy who is not present at the time, are in an unfamiliar environment are then reprimanded by citizens in the town as they hand out flyers and ask passerby's if they want to come in for a health check up. It is interesting how the three white men phrase their question asking women passing by on the streets if "they want their breasts checked." As a result, they are seen as pedophiles and eventually the police comes. It isn't until Mindy Lahiri comes that she is able to clear up the situation and try to show that they as doctors are only trying to help by explaining what they are here to do and that no one is being forced to have a health check up.
Similar to mobile health clinics in the Bay today, it is evident that without community interaction or first gaining the trust of the community, it is impossible to help or give them the necessary resources.
Michelle this is a great way of putting what we learned in class and see how it is portrayed in the media culture. While the situation may have been exaggerated it is quite evident that this type of situation is completely possible.
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