Post Date: June 1, 2024

When it comes to treatments for pain, 35% of Black adults say they’ve felt the pain they were experiencing was not taken seriously either recently (11%) or in past interactions (23%) with doctors and other health care providers.

About three-in-ten Black adults say they’ve felt rushed by their health care provider and 29% say they’ve felt they were treated with less respect than other patients, either recently or in past experiences with doctors and other health care providers. Similarly, some say they’ve felt they’ve received lower quality medical care at some point.

Among Black women, 34% say their women’s health concerns or symptoms were not taken seriously in interactions with doctors and other health care providers. Black adults at all family income levels are about equally or likely to report having at least one of these experiences.

The frequency of negative experiences, with the health care system, are mostly similar between Black adults and all U.S. adults. However, greater shares of Black adults than all U.S. adults say they’ve felt they’ve received lower-quality care in U.S. adults; or been treated with less respect than other patients. And fewer Black adults say they were rushed by a health care provider.

Black women, especially younger Black women, stand out for the frequency with which they report having had negative health care experiences. Taken together, a large percentage of Black women say they’ve experienced at least one of the seven negative health care experiences measured in the survey. Among Black men, close to 50% say they’ve had at least one of six negative experiences with doctors or other health care providers.

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