Problem
Prejudiced medical attitudes
Other Names:
Biased physician careDiscrimination in medical treatment
Unethical bedside manner
Failure to diagnose due to prejudice
Nature:
Medical doctors need, and often are not given, training in how to treat their patients without sexual and racial prejudice. This ignorance is associated with lower rates of diagnosed illness, poorer treatment, and a bedside manner that is offensive to patients in the discriminated groups. The root of the prejudice is the belief that white men are more valuable and contribute more to society than other groups do.
Broader Problems:
Unethical practice of health professionals Related Problems:
Coronary heart disease Subject(s):
Medicine → Medicine Medicine → Diagnosis
Societal Problems → Failure
Societal Problems → Imbalances
Health Care → Treatment
Health Care → Physicians
Health Care → Care
Psychology → Psychology
Psychology → Behaviour
Innovative change → Change
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
G: Very specific problems Date of last update
20.12.2017 – 18:44 CET