Do white doctors understand black patients' pain?

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http://www.latimes.com/science/scie...pain-perception-treatment-20160403-story.html

"Possibly swayed by false beliefs about biological differences between white and black people, some white medical students tend to rate the physical pain of a hypothetical African American patient as less severe than that of a white patient in the same circumstances, says a study published Monday in the journal PNAS."

I guess the "protective effects" of racial stereotyping that PROP proponents likes to tout can cut both ways.

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http://www.latimes.com/science/scie...pain-perception-treatment-20160403-story.html

"Possibly swayed by false beliefs about biological differences between white and black people, some white medical students tend to rate the physical pain of a hypothetical African American patient as less severe than that of a white patient in the same circumstances, says a study published Monday in the journal PNAS."

I guess the "protective effects" of racial stereotyping that PROP proponents likes to tout can cut both ways.
So is my Asian pain score somewhere between whites and blacks?? Maybe it would be a pure interpretation since lots of Med students are Asian...is this all nonsense?
 
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asian pain scores are between black and LATINO, not white. but depending on if its indian sub-continental, or eastern asia, which is more than mixed races, unless its black and latino, then its slightly more, but regionally dependent. duh...
 
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