Publications by authors named "Milne W"
Article Synopsis
- Deaf and hard of hearing patients face challenges in accessing healthcare resources, which are less documented compared to non-deaf patients.
- The article reviews a podcast and blog that discuss a study by James et al. focusing on differences in acuity, length of hospital stay, and emergency department revisits between the two patient groups.
- Additional insights from social media commentary are included to highlight public perceptions and discussions surrounding these healthcare access issues.
Various forms of bias exist in medicine, including race, gender, age, socioeconomic status, and weight bias. Weight bias has not received as much attention in the literature as other forms of bias. More often when discussing weight bias, the discussion is with regard to physician to patient bias, or patient to physician.
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