This is so devastating that medical ai is being used to actually trust patient pain ratings over actual medical studies.

A study published this month took a different approach—training algorithms to read knee x-rays for arthritis by using patients as the AI arbiters of truth instead of doctors. The results revealed that radiologists may have literal blind spots when it comes to reading Black patients’ x-rays.

No it means that they don’t have fucking arthritis

Data from a long-running National Institutes of Health study on knee osteoarthritis showed that Black patients and people with lower incomes reported more pain than other patients with x-rays radiologists scored as similar. The differences might stem from physical factors unknown to keepers of knee knowledge, or psychological and social differences—but how to tease those apart?

I’ll give you a hint why poor people report more pain despite not showing the physical proof- addiction

There we have it folks, people are now better doctors than doctors and radiology is racist because apparently black and poor people claim more pain despite not have symptoms. Of course this could never be the patient lying or exaggerating their pain levels to get drugs, nope, no siree .