Doctors have earned a reputation of being the worst patients.

Dr. Jeffery Wayne, a Sacramento internal medicine specialist, played into this stereotype in 2016 after refusing to go to the hospital despite experiencing chest pains. Once the symptoms reached a point where he could barely walk due to the pain, he finally agreed to visit the emergency room.

Wayne found out he was experiencing a heart attack.

“I share this because maybe it’s relatable,” said Wayne at a California Black Health Network (CBHN) webinar held last week.

“This isn’t just a white doctor speaking to Black Americans — it’s one human being to another,” he said. “It was a wake-up call. Along with the heart attack, I was diagnosed with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and pre-diabetes.”

The diagnosis and subseque

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