{"id":47029,"date":"2017-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/dont-let-a-medical-profiler-get-away-with-malpractice\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T09:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:34:01","slug":"dont-let-a-medical-profiler-get-away-with-malpractice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/dont-let-a-medical-profiler-get-away-with-malpractice\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t let a medical profiler get away with malpractice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever been the victim of medical profiling?<\/p>\n

The odds are good that you may have been \u2014 even if you didn\u2019t realize it at the time. Medical profiling<\/a> occurs when a doctor makes assumptions about you based on his or her personal prejudices due to your age, gender, race, education, income, occupation or looks.<\/p>\n

For example, many young women have felt that their doctors treat them somewhat dismissively when they try to address their concerns. A young woman with head pain may have a serious disorder, like chronic daily migraine, only to be told that she\u2019s just \u201chigh-strung.\u201d<\/p>\n

People with certain psychiatric disorders often face medical discrimination if a doctor can\u2019t identify the cause of their symptoms. A patient with bipolar disorder who is having chest pains might be told to seek psychiatric care instead of being given the cardiac testing that someone else without bipolar disorder would receive.<\/p>\n

Medical profiling can happen due to all sorts of reasons. For example:<\/p>\n