Patients/community members discuss pain. (2023) As a matter of fact, the last dentist I had, her name is Dr. [xxx], and she’s the one who pulled my tooth, and I didn’t feel no pain. And she was a white woman and she’s a sharp white woman. And I’m thinking to myself, I know she going […]
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Patients/community members discuss pain and race. (2023) We do because they like we can take pain more worser [sic]than them. Say for instance, I’ll put it like this when I was in labor, they wait ’til the very last moment to want to give you an epidural because they feel you can take pain more
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Patient/community members discuss fear, pain, and race. (2023) Speaker 1: You don’t have that fear when you’re going to that dentist? The fear is about the procedure and the pain? Speaker 2: I think so. Like I said, it goes back to that age group thing. I probably would not have that as much, but
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Poem by Roald Dahl reprinted on the Poetry Foundation website from Rhyme Stew, published by Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 1989 by Roald Dahl. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates, Ltd..https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89695/the-dentist-and-the-crocodile
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Patients/community members discuss treatment costs. (2023) Or could it be that doctors, dentists, they come and they work in a community or in a county where they don’t have knowledge of the people who are here. Could it be that doctors just come to these places without knowing that 90% of the people here can’t
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Patients/community members discuss standards of care. (2023) Definitely, start with recognizing who’s coming in the door. Try not to judge based on how they’re looking. Like I said, with my mom, the dentist didn’t pay attention to the fact, first of all, that she’s a little older. She’s in severe pain. Of course, she got
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Patients/community members discuss access to care and race and racism. (2023) Oh, that’s easy. They don’t want to do business in minority areas. That’s my honest opinion. Now, on top of all of that that I just said, now add in as a single male, it’s hard to even go places that you feel comfortable.
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Patients/community members discuss pain and race/racism. (2023) Yeah, they do because they think that I’m going to put it like this. They think because we of color we can tolerate pain more than Caucasian people can. And that’s a lie. I don’t know where they get that study from. That’s a lie. We all bleed
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss biases and patient trust. (2023) Teaching us not necessarily how to interact, but just to exclude, try your best to exclude biases, any prejudices you might have. Just treat everybody as a blank slate and do not make assumptions about what anybody can or can’t do or what they want or
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Patients/community members discuss race and racism. (2023) I definitely think it’s a possibility. I definitely feel there can be some maybe discriminatory appearances or even … It’s more an undertone kind of thing. Especially, as African-Americans, I think so. For sure. First of all, we were not really encouraged a lot like me, a lot
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