She drove herself to the emergency room because she knew arriving by ambulance would change how she was read. She sat in the waiting room for almost three hours managing her expression because she knew what a Black woman in visible pain looks like to some clinicians. She rated her pain an eight and then, halfway through the encounter, downgraded it to a seven — because she had absorbed the message that the eight was not being received. This episode of The Trials of Women is a first-person account of the specific survival strategies required when you navigate American healthcare as a Black woman, and what the documented research says about racial bias in pain assessment and treatment. The Trials of Women is available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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