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Too Stubborn To Care For: The Impacts Of Discrimination On Patient Noncompliance, Alice Abrokwa
Too Stubborn To Care For: The Impacts Of Discrimination On Patient Noncompliance, Alice Abrokwa
Vanderbilt Law Review
The role of implicit racial biases in police interactions with people of color has garnered increased public attention and scholarly examination over time, but implicit racial bias in the healthcare context can be as deadly, particularly when it intersects with ableism and sexism. Researchers have found that medical providers are more likely to consider Black patients “noncompliant,” meaning the patient has not adhered to recommended treatment, even without evidence Black patients are less compliant than other patients. Being labeled noncompliant can have grave health consequences; providers are less likely to treat pain aggressively when they consider a patient noncompliant and, …