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something my friend Strike made!

friends at the richmond food not bombs house

uhhhh, this is dumb. white patients receive many more referrals to high-volume hospitals than patients who are POC for several reasons, i think. i’m not an expert, but…

1) white patients are richer on average and tend to start off their care at socially prominent medical facilities,

2) whose doctors attended school with, attend parties with, and enjoy friends in common with highly paid doctors at centers that can afford to concentrate their resources on developing a specialty, which tend to offer more successful surgeries on the whole—-for a higher price.

3) doctors who are not among the (mostly-white, white-structured) social elite send patients to their role models, friends, and acquaintances. on the whole, this group of doctors is denied access to higher-echelon hospitals.

duh. prejudice doesn’t only exist against the patients. i’m kinda worried that markers are stronger than social roles. pretty sure actually. fascism

iisabelle:

jonathan-cunningham:

abbyjean:

Which of the following groups of people with brain tumors are most likely to be referred to a high-volume hospital specializing in neurosurgery: whites, blacks, Hispanics or low-income Americans? According to a new Johns Hopkins study, white patients enjoy much more frequent referrals to high-volume hospitals — those centers that conduct at least 50 brain tumor surgeries each year — than other racial, ethnic or economically-disadvantaged groups. From 2000 to 2005, for example, “hispanics were half as likely as white counterparts” to receive treatment at specialty centers. People living below the poverty line faced similar discrimination; compared to those making $60,000 a year or more, low-income individuals were 43 percent less likely to be admitted to high-volume hospitals. And the disparities are only worsening with time.

While the researchers aren’t positive that physician bias has led to these discrepancies — after all, “patient preference or another reason might be responsible” — the disturbing fact still remains that minority groups aren’t getting the treatment they need. “Unfortunately, it looks like we’re still missing the mark for minority patients,” remarked Afredo Quinones-Hinojosa, senior author of the study and associate professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “What we’ve found really goes against the inherent desire to treat every patient equally.”

Good lord, that’s horrible.  How do they excuse that?  Who’s making the referrals?  Why isn’t there outrage among the staff at this?

philadelphia! corrupt since, oh, forever. am i just ignorant about the prices of these bathrooms? toilets are really expensive (at least in the sims), and all that tile also would be.

i’m a feminist because anyone can be a princess

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