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When medical professionals dismiss your pain

The ER doctor looked right through me when I said the pain was a 9 out of 10 and I know it's because I'm a young Black woman.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Systemic bias in healthcare leads to dangerous disparities in pain recognition and treatment.

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“Where Are You with Healthcare justice and the right to health?”

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