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.
It is true that non-Latinx doctors and nurses don't take Latinx patient's pain seriously. I remember a Latinx woman coming into the New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYC) emergency room while I was waiting there (and only about 10 people). She was in incredible pain and couldn't speak and her friend explained to the intake nurse that she was pregnant in her first trimester, bleeding, and in intense pain. The nurse told her friend that she should sit and wait and she would be seen after people who were there first. She eventually crumpled to the floor in pain, sweating and crying in Spanish and a Black doctor heard her and came out and brought her in the back. The friend later told me it was an ectopic pregnancy, a very painful thing to happen.
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.
Thinking on better condition of medical help for latinx will help to safe lives.That' s way assuri g their comunication is vital.
It is true that non-Latinx doctors and nurses don't take Latinx patient's pain seriously. I remember a Latinx woman coming into the New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYC) emergency room while I was waiting there (and only about 10 people). She was in incredible pain and couldn't speak and her friend explained to the intake nurse that she was pregnant in her first trimester, bleeding, and in intense pain. The nurse told her friend that she should sit and wait and she would be seen after people who were there first. She eventually crumpled to the floor in pain, sweating and crying in Spanish and a Black doctor heard her and came out and brought her in the back. The friend later told me it was an ectopic pregnancy, a very painful thing to happen.