How healthcare is dealing with pain management disparities
How healthcare is dealing with pain management disparities
Modern Healthcare; by Mari Devereaux; 7/29/24
Patients of color receive different pain care than white patients, and universities are turning to implicit bias training for clinicians and revamping medical school curricula to help fix the problem. Disparities between racial groups in pain management largely exist due to the widespread, incorrect belief among providers that race is biological rather than a social construct, according to experts. This ingrained, sometimes unconscious assumption that people of color experience pain differently means marginalized communities often go without adequate medication or treatment for their pain... Here are strategies institutions and states are trying to reduce bias and improve pain treatment among marginalized groups.
- Implicit bias training
- Anti-oppressive medical curriculum
- Patient advocacy and non-opioid pain management