Is there a racial "care gap" in medical treatment? [Video]
By Gwen Ifill,
PBS NewsHour
| 04. 05. 2016
[With CGS Advisory Board Member Dorothy Roberts]
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A new survey has found implicit biases in medical students that may explain why black patients are sometimes undertreated for pain, with some students believing that black people feel less pain and have thicker skin than white people.
Reporter: Gwen Ifill, NewsHour
Interviewees:
- Dorothy Roberts, JD, University of Pennsylvania.
- David Satin, MD, University of Minnesota
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