They also are prone to go to the ER for a skinned knee.
The devil is in the details.
Actually they controlled for appendicitis.
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??
And when they go to the dentist, x-rays are taken with a Polaroid.
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.
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...
The inner city hospitals probably have much tighter budgets. My son fell while riding his bike across the street from the hospital where he was born. Didn’t let go of the handle bars. he wasn’t much of a cryer but he just wouldn’t stop so I took him in. The doc had him make a fist, then took his hand and turned his arm in a circle and said it was a sprain or something. They took gave him some codeine to sleep and put his arm in a sling.
The next morning we went to see a specialist who took an xray and he had a dislocated elbow and a spiral fracture going up. Instead of making a fist, when you dislocate your elbow you can’t OPEN your hand straight out, but you can still close it in a fist. OOPS.
Also, the bone from his wrist to his elbow had actually bent instead of cracking so they had to force it back into shape. We had to go back to the hospital because they put him under anesthesia, the most dangerous part, but he’s ok.