Miss Evers’ Boys (Summary)
This was a television film. The film tells the story of the Tuskegee experiment. The U.S. Federal Government's secret medical experiment on poor African Americans in the year 1931-1972.This secret medical study was called The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks with Syphilis. The story is about a small town nurse named Eunice Evers and her direct friends who got syphilis in the Tuskegee experiment. In 1931, Miss Evers is sent to help Dr. Brodus and Dr. Douglas to help them “treat” black men in the town of Tuskegee. She is also sent to the town to tell people that they would get free treatment and free lunch if they join them. People come to the hospital to receive the treatment and they do the massage to help them to cure the syphilis. Unfortunately, they didn’t know that Government is using them to study the effect of Syphilis for the Tuskegee experiment. They will not be treated. One by one Miss Evers' Boys die or are disabled by the disease.At the end of the film, only a few people live.
When I saw the film, I felt it was unfair. Every life is a rarity. The doctor’s mission is to cure patients; they can’t give up on them or use them to do the experiment. The government is
also evil, because they make use of these patients to get what they want; it’s not fair to these people who want to survive.