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The Times 1st Oct 2024: Treatment for CFS held back by ignorance and prejudice
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BrightCandle
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Its good to finally see the press is getting there and realise its ignorance and prejudice that has been and is the problem. Ignorance can be solved by training, prejudice however can not. The tough thing about prejudice is that humanity does not have any effective ways to solving it. We can suppress it by making it unacceptable to overtly express it with organisational prejudice training but the bias will persist and there is still significant impacts on ethnic minorities in healthcare despite training to attempt to correct it. Still removing the overt abuse with no repercussions would be a good start but with 95%+ of doctors holding these views the problem is going to be hard to solve without firing the majority.