I wrote a comment. But need to say: 1. Calling the under-recognition and under-treatment of Black pain a form of "protection" ignores the pains that resulted in losses, declining productivity, diminishing physical mobility, and avoidable death.
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2. To view untreated pain as "protection" overlooks the humans who were demeaned as drug seeking, faking, or incompetent and turned away with their underlying malady unaddressed.
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3. Untreated pain is itself a form of suffering. And unexamined pain leads to undiagnosed ailments that also have consequences.
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4. Is it any consolation to Black Americans to die less from opioid-related causes, if they die more from the consequences of their under-recognized and under-treated pain? Are these authors really so bold as to say this form of racial bias is actually a "protection"?
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5./end of this rant Not every patient who receives an opioid prescription becomes an addict. But every patient whose pain is under-appreciated risks concurrent and continued suffering, from the pain itself and whatever it stems from. The toll of this bias is far from protective.
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I saw that mess...
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I don't know why I let it get to me. But this one really got me. Like are they really tryin to re-brand racism as protection?
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Thank you for this well articulated rant.
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