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Black Kids Get Less Pain Medication Than White Kids in ER
NBC ^ | September 14, 2015 | Maggie Fox

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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To: Red in Blue PA; don-o
They also are prone to go to the ER for a skinned knee.

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.

22 posted on 09/14/2015 4:21:27 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: EEGator; don-o
By all means, hand out an entire bottle of Tylenol.

Tylenol is only for the black kids that are running a fever. Every white doctor knows that!

23 posted on 09/14/2015 4:21:46 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: don-o

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.


24 posted on 09/14/2015 4:22:17 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: don-o

I wonder what they mean by “kids?”


25 posted on 09/14/2015 4:22:23 PM PDT by umgud
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To: don-o
Several factors, says ER nurse wife:

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.

26 posted on 09/14/2015 4:22:58 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: PGR88
remember you quoted the US mainstream media here, so also consider their BS agenda)

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.

27 posted on 09/14/2015 4:23:25 PM PDT by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: don-o

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.


28 posted on 09/14/2015 4:25:31 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: don-o

You have got to be kidding me. You can’t compare this sort of thing based on race.


29 posted on 09/14/2015 4:25:33 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

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.


30 posted on 09/14/2015 4:27:21 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: don-o
Actually they controlled for appendicitis.

Was it controlled for Headaches? How about a stubbed toe?
31 posted on 09/14/2015 4:27:25 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: don-o

It is wise to wait for further information before you commit to belief of any news article


32 posted on 09/14/2015 4:28:18 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Step away from the Koolade.)
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To: grobdriver
Took 26 posts to get to something substantive. Thanks for the insight.

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.

33 posted on 09/14/2015 4:29:11 PM PDT by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: Red in Blue PA
basically what they stated was since they can't find any "reasons" for the black kids getting "less" medication, then it MUST be racism...

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...

34 posted on 09/14/2015 4:29:31 PM PDT by cherry
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To: don-o

Many of the blacks are selling pain medication..
to everyone even whites..

MOST of black america is totally DOPED UP.. DAILY..


35 posted on 09/14/2015 4:30:12 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: don-o

I’d love to see what these “experts” call children....17 yro’s like St trayvon the boywonder?


36 posted on 09/14/2015 4:30:27 PM PDT by cherry
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To: don-o

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.


37 posted on 09/14/2015 4:32:17 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Jeff Chandler
It is wise to wait for further information before you commit to belief of any news article

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.

38 posted on 09/14/2015 4:33:53 PM PDT by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: cherry

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.


39 posted on 09/14/2015 4:34:33 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: don-o
“Troubling as this is?” WTF* is this guy talking about? Everybody know that blacks can take pain better than whites.
Why waste pain meds on those who don't need it?

*Why The Face?

40 posted on 09/14/2015 4:39:29 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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