New psychology research finds that poor people are perceived as being less susceptible to pain
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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. ...

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      • emizeko [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Assata Shakur can stop a runaway train with her bare hands

      • Yanqui_UXO [any]
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        3 years ago

        and if they're homeless too--an existential threat to the national security, no less. too powerful!

    • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      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.

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Hmm, it's almost like us poors are forced to endure more suffering than the rich.

    Shocking stuff.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    :thinkin-lenin: mutual aid group where poor people, POC, and women can get assigned a rich-looking white guy to yell at doctors to actually treat them properly

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      My dad has to show up to my mom's doctor's appointments to get them to take her seriously. It's so fucking stupid. Sexism and racism in the medical profession is rampant.

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        i'm so goddamned lucky my doctor growing up was also a chicano

      • Theblarglereflargle [any]
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        3 years ago

        My best friend just got diagnosed with Krohn’s last year after like 5 years of begging her doctor to check for it and him refusing. It’s amazing how little women get supported.

      • El_Quico [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I've had to do that for my wife sometimes. It's so fucking bad.

    • Shrek
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      3 years ago

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  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    3 years ago

    It's almost like the richer you are, the less empathy you have for people with less money than you. But that can't be true, look how much money they give to charity!

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          "well, actually, the 'eye of the needle' was a gate near Jerusalem that was just very narrow and all he meant by that was that rich people need to donate some of their stuff so they can fit a slightly less loaded camel through the narrow gate!"

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I mean, some of us probably are. Life is pain, especially when you're broke.

    spoiler

    This also comes in handy when fighting a bone grinding civil war against reactionaries :)

  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    You can’t kill what is already dead in the first place.

  • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I never got to go to the dentist as a kid and when I was first able to afford it one of the first few things my Dr asked me is how much pain I was in with a completely rotted out molar and I honestly told him it was a 0 but can be a 8 some days but goes away usually. He prescribed me 15 norcos and told me to take 2 when I got home after referring me to an endodontis (who also gave me more lol.) Dude literally didn't get he just gave me drugs to sell, I usually numbed it by swishing hard alcohol in my mouth for awhile. I just always thought that situation was wild cause I know that tooth looked bad but I got use to it I guess