Algerians refused hospitalization until death was nearly certain

Evidence

For dozens of years, despite the doctor’s exhortations, the Algerian shied away from hospitalization. Even though the specialist might insist that any hesitation would seriously endanger the patient’s life, the patient would hang back and refuse to be taken to the hospital. It would always be at the last moment, when hardly any hope remained, that consent was given. Even then, the man who made the decision would make it in opposition to the group; and as the case would be a desperate one, as the decision had been too long delayed, the patient would usually die. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 405 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algerians rejected colonial medicine not from ignorance but as resistance; Algerians accepted French hospital treatment only when Algerian doctors approved it; Military doctors let wounded Algerian soldiers die to avoid feeding them in prison (+5 more)

Related

• Algerian refusal of hospital care delayed treatment until death was nearly certain. (similarity 0.95)
• Algerians accepted French hospital treatment only when Algerian doctors approved it (similarity 0.89)
• Medical embargoes meant some Algerians died for lack of treatment (similarity 0.89)
• Algerians rejected colonial medicine not from ignorance but as resistance (similarity 0.85)
• Algerian deaths in hospitals were read as deliberate European murder. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonized hospitalization refusal stems from anti-colonial resistance, not rural superstition. (similarity 0.84)
• Algerians combined modern and traditional medicine for political and psychological reasons (similarity 0.82)
• Colonized populations reject imperial medicine not from ignorance but as political resistance. (similarity 0.82)
• Algerian patients conceive disease as single assault requiring one-shot cure (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial doctors ended up treating Algerian patients like animals (similarity 0.80)
• French authorities compelled doctors to report wounded Algerians under legal penalty. (similarity 0.80)
• Algerian willingness to use French hospitals changed when orders came from maquis doctors (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial domination itself, not tradition, shapes native resistance to medicine (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial authorities embargoed medical supplies to deny Algerians self-treatment during the revolution (similarity 0.78)
• Algerian trust in French hospitals surged once an Algerian doctor commanded the decision. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Algerian refusal of hospital care delayed treatment until death was nearly certain. #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 405
• Egyptian soldiers denied disease to avoid enforced hospitalization. #epitomizes (0.40)