A new study provides evidence that lower-class individuals are stereotyped as insensitive to physical pain, which could impact their medical care and treatment recommendations. The findings have been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. ...
The undertreatment of pain in both cases is falsely represented as doctors perceiving the poor/African-Americans as being more tolerant to pain when it isn't. They simply have less empathy for these patients so they don't give a shit about their discomfort.
The undertreatment of pain in both cases is falsely represented as doctors perceiving the poor/African-Americans as being more tolerant to pain when it isn't. They simply have less empathy for these patients so they don't give a shit about their discomfort.