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Doctors can act as gatekeepers or brokers for patients – how they decide can be crucial

The Conversation · · 816 words · By Chris Cunningham; Elizabeth Dennett; Kerry Chamberlain; Kevin Dew; Richard Egan
Healthcare Inequity Medical Ethics Systemic Racism in Medicine

The article discusses research into the roles general practitioners and hospital doctors play as gatekeepers, brokers, or boundary enforcers in healthcare. It argues that these discretionary roles can lead to inequities in treatment access, particularly for Māori patients in New Zealand.

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“One of the patients we spoke to had malignant melanoma that had been misdiagnosed years earlier as benign.”
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The provided evidence consists only of general dictionary definitions of the word 'patient' and does not contain any information regarding a specific patient's medical history or a misdiagnosis of malignant melanoma.
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web search NEUTRAL — PATIENT definition: a person who is under medical care or treatment. See examples of patient used in a sentence.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/patient
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web search NEUTRAL — A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a medical doctor, nurse, optomet…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient
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web search NEUTRAL — The meaning of PATIENT is enduring pains or trials calmly or without complaint. How to use patient in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patient
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“Another patient, a medical professional, was one of only 100 people in New Zealand put on an unsubsidised medication at no cost to them.”
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The evidence provided is irrelevant to the claim. It includes general information about UW Medicine, Medicare in Washington state, and Wikipedia entries about New Zealand's geography, currency, and music charts, but nothing regarding medication subsidies or a specific medical professional's access to drugs.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New Zealand dollar (Māori: tāra o Aotearoa; sign: $; code: NZD) is the official currency and legal tender of New Zealand including 2 freely associated states of New Zealand (Cook Islands and Niue)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_dollar
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time is a selection of New Zealand songs as voted in 2001 by members of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). The top 30 of this selection was…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and the South Island (Te Waipounamu)—and over 600 smaller island…
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“Gatekeeping may not be malicious but can reproduce the experience of later diagnosis and poorer outcomes, which is already more common for Māori.”
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The evidence provided includes a general Wikipedia entry on Māori people and general information about uterine and breast cancer, but it does not provide any data or confirmation regarding the specific disparity in diagnosis timing or health outcomes for Māori people compared to other groups.
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web search NEUTRAL — In addition, more than 170,000 Māori live in Australia. The Māori language is spoken to some extent by about a fifth of all Māori, representing three per cent of the total population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Māori_people
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web search NEUTRAL — For more information about uterine cancer, please visit https://cle.clinic/3O8Vc8UUterine cancer occurs when cancer cells form in the uterus.
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web search NEUTRAL — Triple-negative breast cancer has fewer treatment options than other types of invasive breast cancer. This is because the cancer cells do not have the estrogen or progesterone receptors or enough of t…
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/about/type…
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