Posted on 09/14/2015 4:06:24 PM PDT by don-o
Black children with acute appendicitis -- a clearly painful emergency -- are less likely than white children to get painkillers in the emergency room, researchers reported Monday.
And nearly as troubling, only about half of any of the kids got painkillers, even though they're strongly recommended in cases of appendicitis, the researchers found.
"Black patients with moderate pain were less likely to receive any analgesia, and black patients with severe pain were less likely to be treated with opioids," Dr. Monika Goyal of the Children's National Health System in Washington and colleagues wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association's JAMA Pediatrics.
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They also are prone to go to the ER for a skinned knee.
The devil is in the details.
I hear that Africa has some really nice hospitals.
I have to wonder if they are using the Obamacare parameters for “kids” and are counting 26 year old black males with a painkiller addiction????
I wouldn’t put statistics manipulations past these a-holes on the left based off what they do with temperature station data...
Actually they controlled for appendicitis.
Are both black and white children on company insurance? Are they just talking about medicaid? Are they trying to equate inner city clinics with Mt. Sinai?
What are the parameters?
Who knew hospitals were racist, too?
Mom sells the pain med on the street. I know this from experince.
Great Catch.
they frame it as one thing whole in fact its far less egregrious than presented.
what was the name agian...The Medical group for The Study Of Doin Black Folks Wrong??
You would need to look at what kinds of procedures are involved
IF ANY of it’s true ( remember you quoted the US mainstream media here, so also consider their BS agenda) I would posit with great confidence -It’s ALL Medicaid - reimbursement related.
The DEA has most doctors scared to death to prescribe Opiates.
And the recent articles showing the feds spying on patient records looking for pill mills is going to make them really cautious about prescribing opiates.
Having been to one...I’d say NO, they don’t have nice hospitals. And they have drugs that are only used in Africa - no other place will allow them - according to the Dr. from Johns Hopkins that I luckily found.
Yup, they are already medicated when they come in.
And when they go to the dentist, x-rays are taken with a Polaroid.
You couldn’t make me go to Africa.
Everything is racist. The main question is does racism cause global warming or is it the other way around.
By all means, hand out an entire bottle of Tylenol.
Now we will have pain medication rationing. All of this crap emirates from the pro-Muslim, communist, black racist in the White House.
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