Race-Based Medicine

Chief Complaint

• “I always knew what I was feeling was more than just severe cramps … Even though multiple doctors told me not to worry about my symptoms, I knew in my gut this was serious.”

• Can you tell someone’s race just by looking at them?

Journal Club

Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites - Hoffman et al, PNAS, 2016

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