The bias behind your undiagnosed chronic pain | Sheetal DeCaria

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

While doctors take an oath to do no harm, there's a good chance their unconscious biases can seep into how seriously they treat pain. This week we are revisiting a talk by physician Sheetal DeCaria, as she explains how perception impacts medical care and treatment -- and calls for health care professionals to check in with themselves before checking in with their patients. Stay tuned after the talk as Shoshana digs deeper into how implicit bias impacts the quality of health care Black women receive.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.5	This is Ted Health.
0:09.5	I'm Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter.
0:12.6	On today's show, Physician Sheedle DeKaria discusses unconscious bias in medicine.
0:19.3	Far too often, it deprives women and people of color from receiving the lifesaving care
0:24.0	that they need.
0:25.8	And after, I'll delve deeper into how unconscious bias keeps black women in particular,
0:32.0	sicker than they should be.
0:33.9	The more we talk about it, the more conscious we are of it, so stay tuned.
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1:07.7	As a doctor, in the field of pain management, I work in a world where you bring us your
1:13.8	pain and we treat it.
1:17.0	We ask questions, we take the symptoms you present.
1:21.0	We decide what tests to run.
1:23.3	We listen with compassion and wisdom and choose the best course of action based on our knowledge
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