“This Is How Black People Get Killed”: Doctor in Video Before Covid Death

Re:“This Is How Black People Get Killed”: Doctor in Video Be... by mjbeswick on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:32AM (#25536362)

I wonder how much her size contributed to experience of discrimination, as it is well established that clinicians often have less empathy towards overweight individuals?

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Re:“This Is How Black People Get Killed”: Doctor in Video Be... by jabrethornton on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:44AM (#25536426)

That is a really good question. I think that there are so many biases people have against each other that we rarely consider. Physicians are not immune from such psychological biases and that is very scary to think about.

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Re:“This Is How Black People Get Killed”: Doctor in Video Be... by MarkMc on Sunday December 27, 2020 @08:13AM (#25550784)

That's an interesting point. It makes me wonder more generally how empathy from doctors and nurses affects patent outcome.

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