Unconscious racial bias measurably degrades medical treatment for black patients.

Evidence

Green, et al. (2007) were trying to understand why doctors in emergency rooms, faced with patients showing symptoms of a heart attack, were less likely to prescribe a procedure for breaking blood clots to African American patients than to white patients. They found that doctors who showed more unconscious preference for whites on the IAT were indeed less likely to offer that clot-busting procedure to blacks. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1247

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the polyad thread on environmental racism and structural discrimination being mediated through putatively neutral institutions. — connects to: Racial bias measurably reduces empathy for black people’s pain — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 681; Black patients’ reported pain is dismissed and undertreated by white physicians — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 955; Slavery-era racial medical myths still bias modern physicians’ pain treatment — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 961 (+1 more)
• SHARE: Specific enough that a friend in medicine or health equity research would want the IAT study detail.

Broader Connections

• Black patients’ reported pain is dismissed and undertreated by white physicians #expands (0.90) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 955
• Racial bias measurably reduces empathy for black people’s pain #expands (0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 681
• Slavery-era racial medical myths still bias modern physicians’ pain treatment #expands (0.80) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 961
• Most racial disparity stems from well-meaning people’s unconscious bias, not explicit hatred #expands (0.75) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1353