#healthcare-disparities

#healthcare-disparities

The alarming findings were published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, showing that four leading AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems differ in accuracy depending on patients ' age, gender, and race - demographic data, disturbingly, that the AI is extracting directly from pathology slides, a feat that's impossible for human doctors. To conduct the study, researchers at Harvard University combed through nearly 29,000 cancer pathology images from some 14,400 cancer patients. Their analysis found that the deep learning models exhibited alarming biases 29.3 percent of the time - on nearly a third of all the diagnostic tasks they were assigned, in other words.

The hospital gown offered no defense against the cold air or the searing pain radiating through her body. Each breath was a negotiation with a searing internal fire. Lying in that sterile bed, under harsh fluorescent lights, she was unquestionably at her most vulnerable, facing a landscape of agony she could not navigate alone. Her suffering was entirely dependent on the subjective assessment of the medical professionals who walked the polished floors.

Black women in the UK who experience symptoms caused by fibroids are facing delays, poor care and dismissal by healthcare professionals according to a parliamentary report. Published by the all-party parliamentary group on black health, the report included a survey of more than 500 women regarding their experience of uterine fibroids, with more than 70% of respondents being Black British.

Untreated symptoms sometimes progress from pain to death, emphasizing the urgent necessity for diversity in medical education to ensure equitable healthcare.

Microaggressions are insidious and contribute significantly to emotional distress and health disparities, particularly for marginalized groups, highlighting the urgent need for systemic change in healthcare.