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Re:The $200K lesson I learned from getting shot by sliverstorm on Monday September 23, 2013 @10:13PM (#6435465)
That's not a consequence of being non-white so much as it is a consequence of your doctor being uninformed, which impacts people of all races.

I'm not saying it doesn't suck, I just take issue with your narrative of how race is the issue at hand, and how the medical system is bigoted towards minorities.

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Re:The $200K lesson I learned from getting shot by dnautics on Monday September 23, 2013 @10:24PM (#6435503)
It's not just the medical system. It's just reality. I live with it. I'm okay with it. I'd just rather not these disparities be magnified and exacerbated by universalizing something which shouldn't be.

>That's not a consequence of being non-white so much as it is a consequence of your doctor being uninformed, which impacts people of all races.

But it impacts minorities in the most general sense (i.e. not just color of skin) more than non-minorities. For fundamental reasons, studies are less statistically reliable, for starters.

I should remind you also that my father is being cared for under a universal system (the VA) I think that the unversality of it does play into the way that the doctors are informed.

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