The picture of health, in color
Healthday reports:“Hispanic cancer survivors, for instance, were twice as likely as their white peers to forgo prescription drugs because of cost. African-Americans were 87 percent more likely than whites to do that.
“Costs drove dental care to the wayside 2.3 times more often among Hispanic cancer patients than among white patients and 57 percent more often among African-American patients.
健康保険制度などの日本との違いがわからないのでなんとも言えないが、黒人やヒスパニックなどはガンの治療などで高い治療をあきらめざるえない率が高いという。
” Physicians from high-minority clinics are also more likely to report patients as “frequently speaking little or no English,” having more problems with chronic pain and substance abuse, and generally “being more medically complex... and psychosocially complex.”
一方、マイノリティーは英語がしゃべれず、医学的にも、心理社会的に問題を抱える場合が多いという。
てか、この女医さんきれいだなああ。こんな人に治療してもらいたいなああああ。
