First, a racial disparity in heart attack care. Now in pain management?
Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds.Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed narcotics such as oxycodone and morphine less frequently than whites.
WhiteCoat Rants rips the study a new one:
Congratulations to a bunch of non-emergency physicians who chose the most politically-charged explanation to create a headline-catching journal article for their 15 minutes of fame.
