Racism in healthcare manifests itself in a variety of overt and covert ways including bias in treatment regarding pain management to views on the 'seriousness' of a particular patient compliant. These biases, and prejudices can become institutionalized and this has a major impact on the treatment prognosis, overall health and even life expectancy for people of color.
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