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.
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.
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.
I blame DEA interference in doctors issuing pain meds.
Could ability to pay have something to do with it?
The ‘RATS are scrapping the bottom of the barrel now looking for something to whine about. Geeesh! This is totally moronic.
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.
And now we know why nurses have to drag around those computers everywhere.
The more statistics gathered, the more “issues” to be discovered.
“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,”...”
Analgesia and Opioids, could be sisters in the projects.
BS story.
Black kids go to ghetto hospitals. Who wants to work there?
Minority doctors who got into med school on Affirmative Action.
Black Doctors are less well qualified. Affirmative Action guarantees this.
So blacks who visit black doctors will experience worse care, less qualified medical help,
I once had a black friend in college who went to a black doctor that was a butcher. I wonder if he’s still alive...
I’m surprised they get any opiates as the watchdogs have gotten so overboard in monitoring these drugs. Docs are audited all the time and punished for giving too many prescriptions. Also, you don’t give much of anything until the diagnosis is confirmed. Additionally, the laporoscopic techniques are much less painful than older, open surgery.
There are several factors:
How far along are they? My daughter started showing signs early the evening before, but it got really bad in the morning. She was operated on within 90 minutes of hitting the hospital. She go no pain melds until it was confirmed to be appendicitis.
If we want the night before the pain management would have been different.
There are a lot of factors like that which need to be accounted for.
I think most of blacks’ pain meds are used up on gsw’s from other blacks.
If you read the article you would see they looked at 900,000 cases. That is a lot of cases. No real chance that the findings are not statistically significant. This means there IS a difference in the treatment and assignment of pain management.
There are plenty of possibilities of why. No kid should “suffer” through this. It’s not like the amount of meds is going to lead to addiction. Post op nowadays is pretty painless.
I find these studies interesting. The real causes are generally not the first ones people think of.
From the article: “It’s possible that black kids are less likely to say they’re in pain”
This is an important variable to consider, but there are clearly others. I haven’t seen the actual publication, so will reserve judgment until I do. The reality is that the journals love this kind of publication, because it’s sensationalistic and they know they’re going to get significant press coverage from it. There are a ton of papers out there showing differences in the way women are treated. Do people actually think that doctors are making treatment decisions based on race or gender, and withholding care on this basis? Really?
I work in an all pediatric hospital and also worked a few years in the ED,and from my perspective,the whites,Hispanic and Asians sit by and are pretty stoic,while the blacks scream,rant and rave and get what they want,including pain meds.
End of story.
I am certainly not a doctor, nurse or other type medical professional. However, I do recall reading summaries of legitimate medical studies that showed that blacks react differently to some medicines than do whites. It is possible that opiates and analgesics would be among them.
It’s been my experience as an RN that many patients who come into the ER with abdominal pain are going to be waiting however long it takes for the surgeon to evaluate them before they get any pain meds, but more so for someone with suspected appendicitis because rebound pain is a cardinal sign and cessation of pain can mean the appendix is ruptured.
Having pain meds on board, while it seems more compassionate, can cloud the clinical picture and complicate care in the long run.
I’m sure that makes me a racist.
Mrs. AV
It’s been my experience as an RN that many patients who come into the ER with abdominal pain are going to be waiting however long it takes for the surgeon to evaluate them before they get any pain meds, but more so for someone with suspected appendicitis because rebound pain is a cardinal sign and cessation of pain can mean the appendix is ruptured.
Having pain meds on board, while it seems more compassionate, can cloud the clinical picture and complicate care in the long run.
I’m sure that makes me a racist.
Mrs. AV
Hospitals in the hood are a little tougher than their counterparts out in the burbs.