Paul Clay Sorum

TL;DR: When treating pain, gender and racial differences were evident only when the role of physician gender was examined, suggesting that male and female physicians may react differently to gender and/or racial cues.

TL;DR: Investigation of the existence and potential causes of systematic differences between patients and physicians in their assessments of the intensity of patients' pain in an emergency department in France showed that physicians' pain ratings may have been affected by non‐medical factors.

TL;DR: Findings challenge a fairly extensive literature suggesting that physicians treat women and minorities less aggressively for their pain, and offer further evidence that pain treatment decisions are influenced physician gender.

TL;DR: A common cognitive foundation for future discussions, at the levels of both clinical care and public policy, of the conditions under which physician-performed euthanasia might be acceptable is demonstrated.