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Patient Profiling: Are You a Victim?
Pamela Wible MD
  • Jul 13, 2017
  • 4 min

Patient Profiling: Are You a Victim?

Ever felt misjudged by a doctor? Or treated unfairly by a clinic or hospital? You may be a victim of patient profiling. Patient profiling is the practice of regarding particular patients as more likely to have certain behaviors or illnesses based on their appearance, race, gender, financial status, or other observable characteristics. Profiling disproportionately impacts patients with chronic pain, mental illness, the uninsured, and patients of color. Like racial profiling by
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