Just found out that "pain" is racist. Anyone still trust Big Pharma?
Just found out that "pain" is racist. Anyone still trust Big Pharma?
There are so many times that you see something or are told something and you say that CAN'T be real. But then you remember that we now live in Clown World and anything is possible. The new rule of thumb has to be if big Pharma says it, it probably is a lie
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I remember reading about race bias in pain treatment. It's something about how doctors trust people from disfavored population less, and tend to give them less effective pain killers... like Advil.
Yes it's a significant issue.
If what you said is true then the doctors involved are unethical assholes
It isn't a question of ethics. It is an issue with training.
When I went to medical school, we were told to watch out for black patients who were drug-seeking. Really, they should have excluded the race from the topic and focused on drug seekers.
While I was not taught this, it was believed that black people experienced less pain but were more likely to seek opioids. As such, that builds an unconscious bias towards black patients.
It is why I posted an article about unconscious bias and medical training.
It isn't that pain is racist, it is we have bad stereotypes and myths that have infiltrated our medical system.
Back in school, if I were to prescribe an opioid (And this is back when I could hand them out like candy), nobody would double-check my work on a white patient. If it was a black patient, someone would always come to inspect the patient and often deny my recommendation.
Heart attacks were another bias that infiltrated the medical system.
Now, for Advil, this is just a marketing campaign, and it's stupid, but as a critique of the medical system, it is valid.
Many people are unethical assholes. Doctors are people. Going to med school does not automatically make you a good person.
People are more complicated than that.
You could have just said conservatives instead of unethical assholes.