Medical Bias Chronic Pain

Sheetal DeCaria: The bias behind your undiagnosed …

https://www.ted.com/talks/sheetal_decaria_the_bias_behind_your_undiagnosed_chronic_pain

The bias behind your undiagnosed chronic pain While doctors take an oath to do no harm, there's a good chance their unconscious biases can seep into how seriously they take your pain. Physician Sheetal DeCaria explains how perception impacts medical care and …

Pain bias: The health inequality rarely discussed - BBC Future

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180518-the-inequality-in-how-women-are-treated-for-pain

More difficult to determine is whether this is due to gender bias, a lack of medical research on women, or actual differences between how the sexes interpret pain. …

Bias, Chronic Pain and Access to Care - HealthyWomen

https://www.healthywomen.org/created-with-support/bias-chronic-pain-and-access-care

Women and pain: Disparities in experience …

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/women-and-pain-disparities-in-experience-and-treatment-2017100912562

To return to the issue of chronic pain, 70% of the people it impacts are women. And yet, 80% of pain …

Pain Patients Suffer Under CDC Opioid Guidelines

https://reason.com/2023/02/14/we-need-new-laws-to-protect-people-in-pain/

As a health care writer and advocate for people living with chronic pain, I get a lot of messages like this one. They reflect the experiences of patients suffering the …

Chronic pain: The “invisible” disability

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/chronic-pain-the-invisible-disability-2017042811360

Only recently has medical research started to catch on to what patients suffering from chronic pain have long known. As reported in a New York Times Well …

7 Common Myths About Chronic Pain – Cleveland Clinic

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/7-common-myths-of-chronic-pain/

Chronic pain can be a result of an illness or injury and is also linked to back pain, cancer, arthritis, headache and nerve pain. In a study that sampled young, middle …

Womens' pain not taken as seriously as mens' pain

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210406164124.htm

Researchers found that when male and female patients expressed the same amount of pain, observers viewed female patients' pain as less intense and more likely …

How we fail black patients in pain | AAMC

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/how-we-fail-black-patients-pain

Here are a few: Collect data. If bias exists, it will show up in the data. Every health care setting needs to collect data on pain... Identify our own biases. To …

Patient Reported Outcomes Using Medical Cannabis for …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36793224/

4 hours ago · Objective: Chronic pain is a major problem for patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. This exploratory study examined patient reported efficacy of …