Patients/community members discuss pain, standards of care, and race. (2023)
Speaker 1: So let me ask you something. You were talking about people having this idea that people of color tolerate it better pain or that we’ve been treated differently because we are not white. Do you think going to a dentist who looks like you, so a dentist of color, either black, Latino, whatever it is, would change that? Or do you think?
Speaker 2: I don’t think so. I don’t think so because they have, the government has planted in the doctors, the dentist, the doctors, everybody’s heads that pain medication is bad for everybody. Not to give nobody no pain medication. And they don’t want to jeopardize their license to write no pain medication unless it’s necessary that they have to because all this fentanyl, and all this other crazy stuff that’s going on out here and these pain pills, when the doctors was writing out all them pain pills from the eighties all the way up, they flooded it. You know what I’m saying? So everybody got hooked on it now they’re not giving them no pain pills. Everybody done got hooked on fentanyl and heroin and crack and crystal meth and all this other crazy stuff they hooked on now.