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It's much easier to post news stories and things I read about to a blog, rather than post to my webpage or BlackBoard. This blog contains posts of interest to students from all of my classes.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

racism in the ER

Emergency department physicians are prescribing more narcotics to patients who say they have pain, but minority patients are less likely than whites to receive such drugs, according to a study published on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Posted by Dr William Ashton at 4:09 PM
Labels: racism, social

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