Ethnic minority patients yearn for warmth from health care professionals, research finds

[Sly Saint]

Developing better connections between ethnic minority patients and health care professionals could drive more positive health care experience for ethnic minority patients, researchers have found.

Professor Trudie Chalder from King’s College London said: “Patients, irrespective of background, desire to feel connected to their health care professionals. But discrimination adds another layer of complexity where patients from ethnic minorities can end up feeling less cared for than their white counterparts.”

https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/...from-health-care-professionals-research-finds

 

[rvallee]

Like an ad on cardiovascular health by a tobacco company.

Chalder, a serial disrespecter, talks about respect. That's rich. As in millions and millions in useless funding.

People want respect. We're not getting it. You can call that however you want, "warmth" is just a ridiculous way to put this. Respect. R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

But they can't do that, even had to invent "bedside manners" as a substitute for respect, for basic human decency. For not treating us like we're an inanimate lump of meat. But they don't respect us at all. That's on them.

 

[Arnie Pye]

I assume that any doctor who is unexpectedly nice to me is just good at acting, if I have already been scowled at by receptionists and/or secretaries and/or nurses before I met the doctor himself or herself.

 

[RedFox]

This is blatantly obvious. I would extend that by saying people in racial/ethnic minorities are treated with disrespect or given inadequate care frequently, and that this needs to be changed immediately.