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.
Pain tolerance is one possibility. Inner city ER’s that are much more guarded about handing out opiate painkillers due to past abuse is another.
I agree. If you read what I just posted, some additional detail broken out regarding the situation of the hospitals themselves might be useful in understand causes other than racism.
That is what interested me in the article and study. It seems, on the surface, as just one more piece of propagit. And a few commenters on the thread blurted that, as if that explains it all.