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sadtimes's avatar

There is a small, but at least universal part of contemporary medical training that has doctors and nurses in residency learn what can be sugarcoated as something like, "cultural differences in perception to pain". The last one I saw was printed in 2017 and read like a 1930's German Ethnic Recognition Field Guide. I have had more than one Physician tell me that Hispanic or Latinx people are widely expected in the medical field to exaggerate pain. I'm no medical expert but I was absolutely floored to hear it at the time and, unfortunately, none of this article surprises me now. Not sure how much of that training might focus on the things you pointed out here but my guess is little to none.

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Aylin Corsino de Almonacid's avatar

Thinking on better condition of medical help for latinx will help to safe lives.That' s way assuri g their comunication is vital.

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