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ihlr-28380	Windermere, Sonora	The Medical and Legal Plight of Sickle Cell Patients: A Case Study of Racial Disparities in Health Care and the Potential Legal Remedies	2024	37	.pdf	application/pdf	17158	776	49	Instead of comparing their Black patients with white patients, hematologists would more likely compare their Black patients to each other, not as Black patients, but as SCD patients, when considering different treatment approaches and assessing the potential for abuse. THE MEDICAL AND LEGAL PLIGHT OF SICKLE CELL PATIENTS A CASE STUDY OF RACIAL DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE AND THE POTENTIAL LEGAL REMEDIES SONORA WINDERMERE, SUPERVISED BY: KENNETH B. NUNN, J.D.* TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Section 1: Why Are SCD Patients Under-treated? 1.1 – Opioids Work, but How 1.2 – Mislabeled Addiction Leads to Mistreated Pseudoaddiction 1. 3 – Racially Biased Medical Treatment Is Poor Treatment 1.3.1 – Racialized Research Created a Hard Habit to Quit 1.3.2 – Get Race Out of Medical Decisions 1.3.3 – When Racial Bias Goes from Paper to Practice 1.4 – Black Patients and Distrust Go Way Back Section 2: Is There Any Justice for SCD Patients? 2.1 – Approaches to Physician Liability 2.1.1 – Medical Malpractice 2.1.2 – Informed Consent 2.1.3 - Breach of Fiduciary Duty 2.1.4 General Barriers in Physician Liability Cases 2.2 - Civil Rights Liability 2.2.1 – Title VI 2.2.2 – Intentionality 2.2.3 – Judicial Reluctance to Finding Liability 2.3 – Approach to Substantive Due Process Claims Section 3: How Can a Broken System Recover? 3.1 – Better Trained Physicians Make Better Physicians 3.2 – The Resources Exists, Just Not Enough 3.3 – Emergency Physicians Need to Step Up 3.4 – More Efficient Opioid Use is Possible 3.5 – Expect and Demand More from Medicine and the Law INTRODUCTION Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder that afflicts 100,000 Americans and is predominantly found in people of African and Mediterranean1 * M.D., J.D. Graduate 2021, University of Florida Colleges of Medicine and Law, now completing her surgical training at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, FL.	cache/ihlr-28380.pdf	txt/ihlr-28380.txt