PSPS: Overcoming Implicit Bias in Pain Medicine

[drusso]

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[nvrsumr]

Some docs have very few hobbies

 

[deleted472101]

Some doctors are not female and or not a minority

 

[Ferrismonk]

Some doctors are not female and or not a minority

What if we identify as a minority female?

 

[nvrsumr]

Some doctors are not female and or not a minority

It’s their privilege to have hobbies

 

[drusso]

I wonder if some people have implicit biases for or against Modic changes, for or against HIZ enhancement on T2 sequences, for or against bright signal on STIR, for or against allodynia on physical exam, for or against hypermobility on motion testing or FLEX/EX radiographs, for or against patients taking opioids, for or against ligamentum flavum hypertrophy, for or against ASC vs HOPD site of service, for or against steroids, for or against patients on Medicaid, etc.

I thought it was going to be about those kinds of implicit biases. But, it looks like it's about race and gender instead...

 

[Chelsea FC]

Wonder if we will see pain fellowship shift to accept more URM. My area they are pretty much homogeneous. (White male)

 

[Ferrismonk]

I wonder if some people have implicit biases for or against Modic changes, for or against HIZ enhancement on T2 sequences, for or against bright signal on STIR, for or against allodynia on physical exam, for or against hypermobility on motion testing or FLEX/EX radiographs, for or against patients taking opioids, for or against ligamentum flavum hypertrophy, for or against ASC vs HOPD site of service, for or against steroids, for or against patients on Medicaid, etc.

I thought it was going to be about those kinds of implicit biases. But, it looks like it's about race and gender instead...

Isn't everything nowadays?

 

[Ferrismonk]

Wonder if we will see pain fellowship shift to accept more URM. My area they are pretty much homogeneous. (White male)

Where I'm at, being a while male is the minority in medicine, especially pain. I'm in the midwest.

 

[Dr. Ice]

What are the white males in medicine going into nowadays?

 

[Propofool123]

What are the white males in medicine going into nowadays?

Ortho