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What Serena Williams's scary childbirth story says about medical treatment of black women
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<blockquote data-quote="SummerMadness" data-source="post: 72223547" data-attributes="member: 142216"><p>Yep, you hit the nail on the head, one of the arguments I've seen is that the opioid epidemic hasn't affected African Americans as greatly because doctors will not prescribe them pain medication, prescribe them less if they do, or stereotype them as drug seeking if they do ask for pain medication.</p><p></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/04/do-blacks-feel-less-pain-than-whites-their-doctors-may-think-so/" target="_blank">The disturbing reason some African American patients may be undertreated for pain</a></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've experienced this firsthand, I went to a doctor about pain and he completely ignored what I was telling him claiming I couldn't have such pain. Well, wouldn't you know I had to come back and finally have my problem addressed properly? It was quite an odd experience because I figured that someone getting a PhD would be treated differently (I know that doesn't gibe with the arguments some are making here that black people are uneducated and "defiant"), but the stereotype that African Americans feel less pain is the main culprit. It really stands the testament of time that the age old racist argument that African Americans experience negative outcomes due to some moral failing persists.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SummerMadness, post: 72223547, member: 142216"] Yep, you hit the nail on the head, one of the arguments I've seen is that the opioid epidemic hasn't affected African Americans as greatly because doctors will not prescribe them pain medication, prescribe them less if they do, or stereotype them as drug seeking if they do ask for pain medication. [B][URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/04/do-blacks-feel-less-pain-than-whites-their-doctors-may-think-so/"]The disturbing reason some African American patients may be undertreated for pain[/URL][/B] I've experienced this firsthand, I went to a doctor about pain and he completely ignored what I was telling him claiming I couldn't have such pain. Well, wouldn't you know I had to come back and finally have my problem addressed properly? It was quite an odd experience because I figured that someone getting a PhD would be treated differently (I know that doesn't gibe with the arguments some are making here that black people are uneducated and "defiant"), but the stereotype that African Americans feel less pain is the main culprit. It really stands the testament of time that the age old racist argument that African Americans experience negative outcomes due to some moral failing persists. [/QUOTE]
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