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The bias behind your undiagnosed chronic pain | Sheetal DeCaria

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

4.01.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 28 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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This is Ted Health. I'm Dr. Shoshana Ungerliter. On today's show, Physician Shedal DeKaria

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discusses unconscious bias in medicine.

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Far too often, it deprives women and people of color from receiving the life-saving care that they need.

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