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originally posted by: quintessentone
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: [post=27008562]quintessentone[phone.
So if you are a transwoman, then your doctor is expected to ignore your prostate and find a way to give you an annual pap or something?
Ask a transperson that question, but you won't.
Haters are the minority but they will always find someone to hate. Some people are just so broken, and are from such broken families, that they just don't care. Making them speak politely does nothing to change the hurt and bitterness they carry in their hearts. These problems go far deeper than what can be fixed with a PC meeting.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: quintessentone
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: [post=27008562]quintessentone[phone.
So if you are a transwoman, then your doctor is expected to ignore your prostate and find a way to give you an annual pap or something?
Ask a transperson that question, but you won't.
In my position, it's an actual question. If the patient gender comes up counter to what the treatment would seem to fit, we have to ask, not just assume it's a mistake.
But thanks for you concern. Your scorn is noted
originally posted by: frogs453
Hmm, maybe it's necessary. A PA from Bellvue hospital was just on video making a huge scene over a bike. A young black man picked a bike, connected his app to it to pay. The white PA got on the bike, refused to get off after he explained it was already connected to him. She then decided to cry and rant and look towards others to back her up. She keep touching him, then claimed "he was hurting her fetus" and yelling for help. He kept trying to explain if she took that bike he was responsible(potentially 1200 if not returned). After a little more screaming and fake tears, and no real back up from others, she shut the tears off immediately and chose another bike.
So, if this medical worker felt that she was entitled to the bike, screamed for help even though the non white guy did nothing to her, I think she has some definite unconscious bias that could affect how she treats patients.
Yes, this will not be a popular opinion on ATS, but oh well.
originally posted by: frogs453
Hmm, maybe it's necessary. A PA from Bellvue hospital was just on video making a huge scene over a bike. A young black man picked a bike, connected his app to it to pay. The white PA got on the bike, refused to get off after he explained it was already connected to him. She then decided to cry and rant and look towards others to back her up. She keep touching him, then claimed "he was hurting her fetus" and yelling for help. He kept trying to explain if she took that bike he was responsible(potentially 1200 if not returned). After a little more screaming and fake tears, and no real back up from others, she shut the tears off immediately and chose another bike.
So, if this medical worker felt that she was entitled to the bike, screamed for help even though the non white guy did nothing to her, I think she has some definite unconscious bias that could affect how she treats patients.
Yes, this will not be a popular opinion on ATS, but oh well.
Explicit, uncritical racial stereotyping in medicine is one good example. We have known for many years that race is a social construct rather than a proxy for genetic or biological differences. Even so, recent work has identified numerous cases of race-adjusted clinical algorithms in medicine. In nephrology, for example, race adjustments that make it appear as if Black patients have better kidney function than they actually do can potentially lead to worse outcomes such as delays in referral for needed specialist care or kidney transplantation. Other more insidious stereotyping characterizes Native Americans and African Americans as more likely to be “noncompliant” with diet and lifestyle advice. These characterizations of noncompliance as a function of attitudes and practices completely ignore structural factors such as poverty, segregation and marketing—factors that create health inequities in the first place.