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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2512
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2008 - 12:50 am: | 
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Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds.
Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed narcotics such as oxycodone and morphine less frequently than whites.
...Linda Simoni-Wastila of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Pharmacy said the race gap finding may reveal some doctors’ suspicions that minority patients could be drug abusers lying about pain to get narcotics.
Irony in race assumption
The irony, she said, is that blacks are the least likely group to abuse prescription drugs. Hispanics are becoming as likely as whites to abuse prescription opioids and stimulants, according to her research. She was not involved in the current study.
The study’s authors said doctors may be less likely to see signs of painkiller abuse in white patients, or they may be undertreating pain in minority patients...
Complete article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22463720/ |
Canary
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Username: Canary
Post Number: 24
Registered: 07-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2008 - 10:10 am: |
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"The study’s authors said doctors may be less likely to see signs of painkiller abuse in white patients, or they may be undertreating pain in minority patients..."
Both in my opinion.
Profiling (and racism) to poor and lack of medical coverage so the less care you get.
I've been through that and with medicare it's not that much better..especially with seeing doctors as more do not take medicare and medicaid due to the system not paying in a timely manner.
Doesn't take much to see that one is more expensive alive than dead.
If this kind of not-healthcare keeps going here, better be prepared now if haven't, to get the best health and disability insurance company and coverage you can. Although roadblocks are there too. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11013
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2008 - 01:35 pm: |
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And when you do have good health care insurance, caregivers want to milk it for all its worth, prescribing all kind of unnecessary tests and duplicate procedures to bring money in for the hospitals, knowing that the insurance companies will pay for these treatments. |
Canary
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Username: Canary
Post Number: 25
Registered: 07-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2008 - 03:02 pm: |
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Have to keep an eye out on that, if one is able, Cynique.
They do that with medicare too.
Most people will just go along with what the doctors and techs will say.
Better than not getting medical help !
'Sicko' is for reals. |
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