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How to advocate for patients when colleagues dismiss racial bias in pain management

I work as a nurse in a hospital where I watch Black and Latino patients get undertreated for pain every single day, and when I advocate for them my white colleagues act like I am being difficult and oversensitive.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The person experiences moral distress from witnessing systemic harm while being professionally isolated for attempting to interrupt it.

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“Where Are You with Healthcare equity and structural racism in medicine?”

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