A study of interactions between military doctors and patients of various ranks confirms that people with higher status get resources at other people's expense.
Power is invisible, but its effects can be seen everywhere — especially in the health records of active duty military personnel. By examining details of 1.5 million emergency room visits at U.S. military hospitals nationwide, researchers found that doctors invested significantly more resources in patients who outranked them than in patients of equal or lesser rank.
4%, the researchers found. “The powerful unwittingly ‘steal’ resources from less-powerful individuals,” Schwab and Singh wrote. Outside the military, doctors and patients can't use official rank to measure their power relative to each other, but they do contend with the effects of race and gender. That led the researchers to investigate whether the physicians in their study treated patients differently if they shared these attributes.
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