Undertreated pain can result in unnecessary suffering and a greater likelihood of long-term chronic pain.

White people who visit hospital emergency departments with pain are 26% more likely than Black people to be given opioid pain medications such as morphine. This was a key finding from our recent study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. We also found that Black patients were 25% more likely than white patients to be given only non-opioid painkillers such as ibuprofen, which are typically available over the counter.

  • @Potatos_are_not_friends
    18•1 year ago

    Study 1 documented these beliefs among white laypersons and revealed that participants who more strongly endorsed false beliefs about biological differences reported lower pain ratings for a black (vs. white) target.

    Study 2 extended these findings to the medical context and found that half of a sample of white medical students and residents endorsed these beliefs.

    Moreover, participants who endorsed these beliefs rated the black (vs. white) patient’s pain as lower and made less accurate treatment recommendations.

    This paper is from 2016. That’s 7 years ago.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/

    We need boomer doctors to die out already. And to fix medical education.