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Patients who are deaf and hard of hearing may have difficulty accessing healthcare resources when compared with non-deaf or hard of hearing patients. Little research has been performed investigating in what ways these difficulties manifest. This article summarizes the podcast and blog discussing the manuscript by James et al. in which deaf and hard of hearing patients are compared to non-deaf and hard of hearing patients when it comes to acuity, length of stay, and emergency department revisits. Social media commentary is included.
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Persons With Hearing Impairments , Humans , Emergency Service, Hospital , HearingSubject(s)
Chronic Pain , Emergency Service, Hospital , Abdominal Pain/diagnosis , Abdominal Pain/etiology , Humans , RiskSubject(s)
Bursitis , Elbow Joint , Olecranon Process , Soft Tissue Infections , Bursitis/diagnosis , Bursitis/therapy , HumansABSTRACT
Various forms of bias exist in medicine, including race, gender, age, socioeconomic status, and weight bias. Weight bias has not received as much attention in the literature as other forms of bias. More often when discussing weight bias, the discussion is with regard to physician to patient bias, or patient to physician. In this article, we summarize the study performed by McLean et al. as well as the podcast and discussion, and social media commentary, in which the investigators evaluate the presence of physician to physician weight bias.
