What: A study in Obstetrics & Gynecology finds that Black women are “about 10 percent less likely to receive [an epidural] during labor” when compared with white women. When researchers looked at measures of social inequity, the lowest-ranked locations provided epidurals less frequently to both white and Black women. But Black women were still less likely to get one.
Why it matters: Yet another piece of evidence detailing how racism pervades the practice of medicine.
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