Study: Black Children Are Less Likely To Get Pain Medication In ERs
The Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) revealed this past weekend that black children are dramatically less likely to receive pain medication in the emergency room than white children, according to ABC News.
Black children are 39 percent less likely to receive the same medicine as white children with similar problems. Since little is known about children’s pain expression and perception, the PAS is searching for a direct reason for the findings.
The study’s lead researcher, Dr. Tiffani J. Johnson, expressed her concerns about what she discovered.
“If we don’t recognize disparities, we’re never going to be able to close the gaps,” Johnson said.
“Now we need to look at where these differences are coming from. Are they at the patient level, the parent level or the physician level?”
The PAS also revealed that black and Hispanic children are likelier to have long ER visits than white children.
Researchers used data from the CDC’s National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, which included more than 2,000 children from 550 hospitals who visited the ER for abdominal pain between 2006 and 2009.
A 2002 Institute of Medicine study found large patterns of racial disparities in medical treatments, including that “minorities are less likely to be given appropriate cardiac medications or to undergo bypass surgery, and are less likely to receive kidney dialysis or transplants” as well as more likely to receive painful or life-altering procedures like limb amputation.
“the PAS is searching for a direct reason for the findings”
Let’s take a fucking guess. This is sickening.
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(Video) “Smart Girls At the Party,” with Amy Poehler.
Yet another reason why I love Amy Poehler …
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leftist-linguaphile:jpegartifacts:
1 on Flickr.
In Dr. Seuss we trust. Beautiful.
Beautiful young person, making a statement.
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Kids Don’t Mind If You Put Veggies In The Cake
Will kids eat their veggies if they’re inside desserts? Parents and nutritionists have been debating this question for years.
Now, it seems there’s an answer: Yes, if it’s broccoli in the cake. No, if it’s chickpeas in the chocolate-chip cookies. -Nancy Shute
Somehow the idea of putting broccoli into cake doesn’t sound to appealing. -Savy
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I’d like to try baking a broccoli cake or a batch of chickpea cookies. #Add to bucket list
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I’m not sure when he breathes :)
An extremely inspirational TedTalk by Steve Ritz, a south bronx teacher who has brought green walls into his classroom changing hearts, minds, and diets. This man is spreading “the new green graffiti” in communities that need it the most. Never ceases to amaze me what one person can do. Amazing images of his work in the slides as well.
On Praising Tomboys and Rejecting Feminine Boys
Teaching the lesson that things associated with females are considered weak or soft and things associated with men are considered strong, at such a young age, is a dangerous and slippery slope.
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long saturday
three bike giveaways across boston starting at 9:30. just got home.
a bit of chaos, but so many smiles. teaching youth about bikes, especially teenagers, is so fulfilling. this is why i love my work. want me to give up an entire saturday to do this? hands down, i’m in on it. i mean, even corralling adorable toddlers is worth it although they’re the hardest to keep on track. so. effing. cute.
working with youth is going to keep me young
reasons why i’m loving my internship:
- making fliers to encourage youth participation in a citywide ride
- helping with helmet and bike giveaways in low-income communities
- teaching cycling safety classes
- playing bike games with youth
- working with the mechanic on refurbishing bikes
- meetings with bicycling advocates and transportation planners about putting in more bike lanes
- critiquing intersection/crossing designs
- delivering helmets with so many strapped to my back that i feel like a ninja turtle
Not just resubmitting this, I’m actually the one in green.
This video launched two nights ago, from an absolutely amazing group of young people. Entitled “Re-Teaching Gender and Sexuality”, the video features young queer people sharing their thoughts on American culture/hetero/cissexism, and the real life experiences of queer youth. It’s only 3 minutes long, but the producers of the video also have a documentary, called “Put THIS On The Map”, which voices the experiences of queer young people in Suburban Washington State. The team of queer youth educators associated with the film travel and do trainings in places that range from high school classrooms to hospitals to 200+ person mental health training conferences. The entire team affiliated with PTOTM are incredible, incredible people, and this video only serves to highlight the amazing things that queer youth are capable of, and the ways that we are engaging to take charge of our own lives. Help put us on the map? :)
Summer Memories with the Green Team
We took the students rock climbing in the Hammond Pond Reservation, which is just behind the Chestnut Hill Mall (ps it’s T accessible). This day turned out really well once I finally found my way out there. I ended up with a flat tire on my bike that morning while riding to pick up paychecks in South Boston. It was my second flat tire in two days thanks to a shard of glass. I had to walk my bike back to my apartment to fix it since I didn’t have a hand pump yet. After that, I missed the bus stop in Chestnut Hill where I needed to get off. Needless to say, it turned into a really long morning.
Thankfully, from the moment I met up with everyone else my day did a complete 180. It was awesome to see the students push themselves and cheer each other on. It felt good to see a few of the older students in the group come up excitedly asking for me to belay them. Just to see them so enthusiastic to do something, especially when they tend to dismiss other activities and have the “I’m too cool for this” attitude, made my day. I really want to relive this sometime soon.
