Distrust in Doctors
Syestemic racism and what it actually does
It has been reported that there are racist things in textbooks. Yes they are old so it is expected that there are some out dated beliefs however whe it comes to someones life precoceved notions should not be what kills them. The following image was a page from a textbook commonly used in Nursing classrooms. This cleary dsays things such as "Blacks belive that sufring and pain is inevatable" as well as other problmatic things this also only came out in 2017. This was only 3 years ago witch means most if not all doctors were taught with thease belifes. They aso an be subconscious belifes that they do not even know they have because this is so normalize race bias in the medicle field.
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In the field there are many symptoms to watch out for such as things like skin rashes. This is a visual symptom that looks diffrent on diffrent skin tones. lets say skin tones from a range from 1-6 with 1 being a pale white skin color and 6 being a very dark skin color. if you look it is easy to see that over 85 to 90% of images are of lighiter skin people like in the 1-3 range. This makes it hard for new doctors to identify the right skin rashes with darker skin patients. Thus making a proper dignoses for people in the 4-6 range much much harder There is a very common practice that is called heuristics it is used in most pracitces and some times in every day life Now let me explane why this is dangerous. his is a practice oof aking sevrle comon factorrs such as gender, sexual otentation, race, age ect. to come to a genral conscience. while in most cases this may be correct this can also be extreamly misleading. and cause a misdignosesand cause serious problems and healthc omplaction. While this was not intended to be a bad thing i belive when it comes to somthing as serious as someones health impact over intent.
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