Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Reducing racial bias in pain treatment is a laudable and feasible goal that requires attention to and management of health care professionals' self-concept; an interdisciplinary approach to research that bridges knowledge and expertise across multiple fields; and a medical education system primed to take advantage of its unique position at the heart of health care professional formation and development.This paper provides support for a more complex understanding of the social and psychological factors driving racial bias in medicine and pain treatment, presents evidence that reducing racial biases is possible, and considers medical education's role in doing so.
Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic
Author: Brian B. Drwecki
Institution: Regis University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W187779857