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Martin ML.
Ethnicity and Analgesic Practice: An Editorial.
Ann Emerg Med. 2000;35(1):77-79.

“We must consider all possibilities that could contribute to these findings. Do some patients express pain in a way that is more convincing that they need medication? Do some patients present in a ways that they are viewed as overly dramatic, drug seeking, or for some societal reason not deserving of pain medication? Do clinicians withhold or deliver inadequate medications on the basis of their: (1) personal bias, (2) subconscious block against giving significant amounts of pain medication because of fear of causing addiction, (3) practice in a community where it is common for ethnic disparities in health care to exist, and/or (4) other reasons?”