Posted on 09/14/2015 4:06:24 PM PDT by don-o
The devil is in the details.
I am guessing you might be right.
Unless this research is broken down by hospital I would not give it much credence.
Unless blacks and whites are treated differently in THE SAME HOSPITAL it is a bunch of race baiting hog wash.
Where are blacks most likely to go to the ER? In a metropolitan hospital.
What is a metro hospital very likely to see? Drug seeking behaviors.
What happens when ER doctors see a lot of drug seeking behavior? They become cautious about prescribing pain killers.
Everything in human behavior is conditional. If you learn that certain types of people and certain types of behavior are drug seeking types you as a doctor are not going to give a person displaying those behaviors powerful drugs. It is what the law requires.
Tylenol is only for the black kids that are running a fever. Every white doctor knows that!
Pain meds for my recent hospital stay for gallstones and surgery was based on my request. I usually turned them down. My pain tolerance is different than others.
I wonder what they mean by “kids?”
1. Blacks are statistically uninsured or under insured and will ask for pain meds less often.
2. Blacks are more likely to be intimidated by the medical environment and less likely to say to a nurse, "Hey, my kid hurts. How about some drugs over here."
3. The white/black ratio among nurses (who advocate for the patient) is fairly even, leaning towards blacks in many parts of the country, so even if a white doc is discriminating by not writing for a black patient, the nurse can go to him and say, "Hey, my patient is in a lot of pain - can we get something for them?"
4. As a rule, kids (all kids) are undermedicated in the US.
I also posted a link to the report myself in post 16 in hopes that those with ability to analyze technical language might have a look at it.
Everything and everyone in the USA is racist. Nothing escapes this. Babies, dogs, doctors included. Of course blacks, ROP’ers and transsexuals are exempt. Do you feel more White Guilt now? neither do I.
You have got to be kidding me. You can’t compare this sort of thing based on race.
I do not believe that an ER doctor would withhold pain meds from a child simply because he is black. That charge would mean that the doctor wants black children to suffer. What a hideous accusation.
It is wise to wait for further information before you commit to belief of any news article
As a rule, kids (all kids) are undermedicated in the US.
Care to expand on that? Because it's charged that too many lids are getting doped up to make them behave. This study is confined to the ER, I think.
each case is different...
did the kids come in on their own?...or was their drugged adled parent with them, demanding oxy's?...
were these kids in repeatedly, brought in by said parents?....were the kids the prop for getting more oxy's for mommy or daddy?...
true appendicitis is a surgical emergency...if the "kids" were sent home without oxys then they probably did not have appendicitis....
my mother would have given us ginger ale and a hot water bottle to hold to our abdomen for pain...
Many of the blacks are selling pain medication..
to everyone even whites..
MOST of black america is totally DOPED UP.. DAILY..
I’d love to see what these “experts” call children....17 yro’s like St trayvon the boywonder?
I wonder if they controlled for the hospitals?
For instance, not a lot of whites end up in Grady in downtown Atlanta, esp. for appendicitis, but plenty do at NE Georgia. They might have different policies at different hospitals frequented by different races on pain killers.
That is why I posted comment 1 and linked to the report in 16.
Back in the day, this was what FR actually did. FReepers who knew about something shared with those of us who did not. Everyone has an opinion.
I think it is has to do with the hospitals they end up in. Blacks and whites concentrate and work in different areas and thus end up in different hospitals. Controlling by hospital or income might have enlightening results.
*Why The Face?
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