What Is White Supremacy

Black Americans are systematically undertreated for pain relative to white Americans.

Half of white medical trainees believe such myths as black people have thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings than white people. Following from this belief, Black patients are 22% less likely than white patients to receive any pain medication.

Full study (2016): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/

Read more: https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/how-we-fail-black-patients-pain

Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites

The present work examines beliefs associated with racial bias in pain management, a critical health care domain with well-documented racial disparities. Specifically, this work reveals that a substantial number of white laypeople and medical students ...

PubMed Central (PMC)
Mar 20, 2023 at 3:40amWeb
Show threadSharon Gibson MorganMar 20, 2023
@whatiswhitesupremacy John Oliver has an excellent piece on this subject. He had guest Wanda Sykes, an African American comedian, share her experience with pain management following a double mastectomy. She tells viewers that her doctor prescribed "Ibu-fucking-profen" to deal with pain following her surgery. https://youtu.be/TATSAHJKRd8
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