Black Hospital Patients Given Cold Shoulder In Disturbing New Study

Could the color of your skin affect the medical care you get at the end of your life?

A disturbing new study published in the January issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management suggests that it might. The research shows that black actors who were asked to portray dying hospital patients received less compassionate care from real doctors than did their white counterparts. Researchers recruited 33 hospital-based doctors from western Pennsylvania and placed them in “high-fidelity” simulations in which they interacted with the actors, who read from matching scripts and exhibited the same simulated vital signs. Each “patient” was accompanied by another actor portraying a family member.

The doctors knew they were involved in a study, mais… LIRE LA SUITE.