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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


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To: Aria

A few years ago, I took an injured employee to the hospital in Keneiba, Mali and had him admitted. The hospital was a windowless, circular mud hut with a thatched roof and only one door. The hospital had a dirt floor, was about thirty feet in diameter, and about fifteen patients were lying on straw mats on the dirt floor arranged in a circle around the wall.

I happened to arrive just as the doctor and two interns (you could tell they were doctors because they were wearing dirty white smocks) were making their rounds, and I watched them as they knelt by each patient to give them an injection all with the same needle. About every third patient, an intern would sharpen the needle, but no attempt was made to sterilize the needle. As an estimated forty percent of the local population was HIV positive at the time, it made that needle the most dangerous thing I have ever encountered.

No, they don’t have nice hospitals in Africa.


41 posted on 09/14/2015 4:40:21 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Little Ray

From the link in post 16 -

The NHAMCS is a multistage national probability sample survey of visits to the EDs and outpatient departments of hospitals, exclusive of federal, military, and Veterans Affairs hospitals in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.


42 posted on 09/14/2015 4:40:41 PM PDT by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: don-o
They're getting doped up in the government schools - to make them "behave".

In the ER they don't want to drug them so much as to be unresponsive and unable to assist with diagnosis. So take the edge off, yeah. Put 'em to sleep, no.

43 posted on 09/14/2015 4:41:00 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: don-o
Just who are these researchers?and why do they always throw race into everything they do.

There could be numerous reasons the Doc's won't give Opiods to black kids and it probably has nothing to do with race.

Maybe the kid was required to kick the heroine habit before he was born because his mother was consuming it while he was in Utero.Or maybe the kids allergic to opium based drugs.

There could be many reasons.

44 posted on 09/14/2015 4:41:58 PM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: don-o

Only blacks, brain dead liberals, the lamestream media and federal government bureaucrats pay attention to cries of white on black racism anymore.

To any thinking person capable of supersizing reasonable judgement accusations of racism have become no more than white noise in the background - like the far distant hum of car tires on the interstate.


45 posted on 09/14/2015 4:43:59 PM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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To: don-o

21 years and under. Again, I would wait for additional news articles written by people who can give insight into the methodology of this study. I have seen too many definitive scientific studies debunked.


46 posted on 09/14/2015 4:45:24 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Step away from the Koolade.)
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To: don-o

In other words, “No.”
They only considered race, not the hospitals.
If black patients with the same complaints got fewer pain killers compared to white patients IN THE SAME HOSPITAL, they might have a case.
But what they have here is not science, it is propaganda.


47 posted on 09/14/2015 4:50:49 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

What are these media people going to come up with next to run down whitey?

I am sick and tired of this shiite and ready for some payback.


48 posted on 09/14/2015 4:52:12 PM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: don-o

I blame DEA interference in doctors issuing pain meds.


49 posted on 09/14/2015 4:53:13 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: don-o

Could ability to pay have something to do with it?


50 posted on 09/14/2015 4:54:57 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: umgud

“I wonder what they mean by “kids?”

Isn’t that any unarmed black under the age of 21?


51 posted on 09/14/2015 4:58:23 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: GraceG

Exactly!

26 year old thugs with gunshot wounds at that


52 posted on 09/14/2015 4:58:49 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (This Hispanic wants a wall, the National Guard, and turrets guarding our border)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The news report is a LIE and misrepresents the research.

Headline: “Black Kids Get Less Pain Medication Than White Kids in ER” is a LIE.

Lead sentence: “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. “ is a LIE.

From the actual report abstract “ In a multivariable model, there were no significant differences in the overall rate of analgesia administration by race. “

From the body of the report: “ Table 2 describes the distribution of analgesia administration by race. In bivariable analysis, there were no statistically significant differences in administration of any analgesia by race; however, black patients were less likely to receive opioid analgesia than white patients”

From a table in the actual report: Proportion receiving any pain relief White = 57%, Black = 55%. That difference is statistically insignificant. The only difference is in the TYPE of pain relief given.

People should NEVER EVER believe these MSM propaganda pieces without going to the original study.


53 posted on 09/14/2015 4:59:22 PM PDT by BigBobber (`)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

At this point in society, not only are schools, history books, math, language, clothes, cars, and homes RACIST....but so is everything else that doesn’t bow down to the liberal golden calf of “race”.


54 posted on 09/14/2015 5:00:23 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (This Hispanic wants a wall, the National Guard, and turrets guarding our border)
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To: don-o

The ‘RATS are scrapping the bottom of the barrel now looking for something to whine about. Geeesh! This is totally moronic.


55 posted on 09/14/2015 5:02:00 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals keep looking for ways to be offended. I keep looking for ways to offend them.)
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To: Pontiac

I think you nailed it.


56 posted on 09/14/2015 5:02:07 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: don-o

The only time I ever got a pain killer was after surgery. I don’t believe it’s common practice to hand out pain killers in the ER when you may not even know the person’s medical condition or history.


57 posted on 09/14/2015 5:07:25 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: BigBobber
People should NEVER EVER believe these MSM propaganda pieces without going to the original study.

Exactly right. And thanks for digging in to help us get ahead of the continued disinformation campaign we may well see off this.

58 posted on 09/14/2015 5:08:24 PM PDT by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: don-o

MSM are absolute champs at making false comparisons today.


59 posted on 09/14/2015 5:09:12 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: petercooper
"And when they go to the dentist, x-rays are taken with a Polaroid."

And when they have a CT Scan that requires contrast, they're injected with the leftover blue dye that Dr. Mengele used during his experiments on twins in the concentration camps.

60 posted on 09/14/2015 5:12:09 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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