What stops seriously ill Black patients and their families from getting the care they want in life and in death?
Racial Bias In Health Care
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Busier Hospitals Widen Care Disparities for Black Patients
Shooshan Danagoulian shares new research that examines the effect of hospital capacity strain on racial disparities in mortality.
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How Nursing Home Staff Biases Drive Inequitable Care
Jasmine Travers shares research showing how racial biases can impact care for Black nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
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Racial Bias Lurking in Patient Records
Ishani Ganguli on new research showing Black patients have much higher odds of having clinicians write negative descriptors about them.
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Presenting The Dose: Asian Americans and the Dual Pandemic
The Commonwealth Fund’s Shanoor Seervai leads a discussion about anti-Asian bias and how the pandemic is affecting the lives of Asians in the U.S.
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This Algorithm Can Help Docs Better ID Pain in Black Patients
Bapu Jena breaks down research on a new algorithm that could better identify causes of pain in Black patients that radiologists regularly miss.
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Masking Problems
How racism makes wearing a mask in public much more complicated for one black doctor.