The bias behind your undiagnosed chronic pain | Sheetal DeCaria

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🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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While doctors take an oath to do no harm, there's a good chance their unconscious biases can seep into how seriously they take your pain. Physician Sheetal DeCaria explains how perception impacts medical care and treatment -- and calls for health care professionals to check in with how they do their patient checkups.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talk's Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:07.6	None of us want to be in pain, but whose pain is taken seriously by the healthcare system.
0:13.3	In our 2022 talk from TEDx Oak Park Women, physician Sheetal D'Acaria unpacks the way
0:18.7	pain works in our brains.
0:21.1	How it affects men and women differently, and what happens when pain has no discernible
0:26.0	source.
0:27.0	Hey, I'm Dr. Jen Gunter, host of a podcast from TED called Body Stuff.
0:33.7	On this show, I debunk medical myths and explore some of the body's most fascinating mysteries.
0:40.2	Next up, our opioids the best option for treating pain.
0:44.5	There's this mythical perception that there are best, strongest pain relievers and there's
0:48.5	just nothing to back that up.
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