“Does A White Doctor Understand A Black Patient’s Pain?”

[smartjuanxxx]

“Does A White Doctor Understand A Black Patient’s Pain?”


http://www.latimes.com/science/scie...pain-perception-treatment-20160403-story.html

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He only understands his privilege...



And we're not talking admitting privilege.

I see another teacher got fired for posting in her own time on her own web page...

Seems the Social Justice terrorists got all outraged that a white person say that black Utes are murdering each other.

 

[smartjuanxxx]

sad state of affairs

 

[Tigersman]

Pain is subjective

So what all doctors and nurses do is ask the patient to grade their pain on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being almost no pain and 10 being the worse pain they ever felt.

 

[renard_ruse]

I am seriously shopping around for another country. This racial stuff keeps getting more and more awful here.

I looked into Russia but not easy to immigrate there, and its poor and I don't know anyone there and what the fuck would I do for a living? Maybe retirement to Crimea, but they also make it very difficult to retire there which is very stupid, they could use the money retirees could bring into the country. An ex-pat community in the Crimea would help their economy like the Brits in Southern Spain. I guess I'll write that off.

Just not that many good options. Others countries either unsafe / poor, even more liberal than we are (Europe, Canada), or places I would be an even smaller minority than in SoCal (Japan, Asia, etc). If I were 20 again, I would be a lot more serious about country shopping but I guess I'll just say screw it and stay here.

 

[digitalia]

...I guess I'll just say screw it and stay here.

Nothing like screwing yourself simply for lemming comfort and security, renard.

 

[Aella_]

Funny how our political junkies read politics in everything when this article has nothing to do with politics.

 

[Aella_]

I mean: there Are variations according to either race or culture, which need to be taken into account. (Although sometimes -like in this case- some people lean too much on urban myths or biases instead of reality)

For example:
Because of the stigma associated with mental illness, some asian cultures tend to somatise a lot and complain about pain and so on when they get depressed, right? Instead of being perceived as weak or not coping if they complain about low mood and such. Well known fact.
- Or some asian people tend to avoid alcohol because they metabolise it in a different way than white people or other 'races' do.

 

[Adjudicator]

Funny how our political junkies read politics in everything when this article has nothing to do with politics.

Says the asshat who interprets thread after thread as a libs/progressives vs r-winger argument

I mean: there Are variations according to either race or culture, which need to be taken into account. (Although sometimes -like in this case- some people lean too much on urban myths or biases instead of reality)

For example:
Because of the stigma associated with mental illness, some asian cultures tend to somatise a lot and complain about pain and so on when they get depressed, right? Instead of being perceived as weak or not coping if they complain about low mood and such. Well known fact.
- Or some asian people tend to avoid alcohol because they metabolise it in a different way than white people or other 'races' do.

Cite?

 

[Aella_]

Cite?

I'm not gonna google my ass for you, while you sit and eat nachos...and mcDonalds..and chips… and chocolate cookies… and cake…

Says the asshat who interprets thread after thread as a libs/progressives vs r-winger argument

And… .do you have a problem with that? Because it's common board knowledge that
Progressives = stupid and bad
R-wingers = good and clever.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Strange, every time I've ever had a medical professional inquire about my pain level they asked me to describe it on a scale of 1 to 10. With 10 being the high of course.

So far in my life I've had one incidence of level 10 pain, when I was passing a kidney stone. Even having three toes cut to the bone and broken in a motorcycle accident didn't compare to that, they were maybe a 6 or 7. Passing a kidney stone is the only time that I was in so much pain that it literally made me vomit.

 

[nerfhearder]

It's really a kind of interesting article.
Not exactly sure what people are bitching about in here because it's not at all about anything PC or even remotely political. It's just an interesting study of medical students.