A thousand cuts

Book • 2010
Addresses Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Medicine highlights inequities faced by marginalized communities within the emergency department.

It explores how implicit bias, structural inequity, and differential treatment contribute to poor outcomes for minorities.

This highlights implicit bias, structural inequity, and differential treatment contribute to poor outcomes for minorities.

Key findings include longer wait times, lower rates of pain medication, and decreased likelihood of advanced imaging for minority patients.

The paper also discusses pre-hospital care disparities.

This research underscores the need for systemic changes and interventions to address these inequities.

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