Weisse, C. S., Sorum, P. C., & Dominguez, R. E. (2003). The influence of gender and race on physicians’ pain management decisions. The Journal of Pain, 4(9), 505–510. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2003.08.002
This article examines whether gender or race affects the physicians' treatment plan for patients. The article finds less support for the notion that minorities and women are treated less aggressively. Instead, the article finds that the physicians gender identity effected how they treated patients. These findings go further than previous studies by including the physicians gender and race in the observations. There are some limitations to this study.