The article “Emergency Medical Responders Confront Racial Bias” by Kristen Foden- Vencil, talks about how EMTs and paramedics run into the problem of bias on a daily basis. Jamie Kennel the head of emergency medical services programs in Oregon conducted a study on this topic. She looked at 104,000 medical charts from 2017 to 2019. During her research she found that forty percent of black patients were less likely to receive pain medication over white patients. I found this surprising because throughout the article she also talked about how minority patients were less likely to get pain medication over white patients. Some assume minorities are just acting to get pain medication. This was surprising to me because what is the difference between a white patients pain and a minority patients pain? And what gives the paramedic the right to refuse to give their patients something just because of the color of their skin. Kennel believes that paramedics do not do this intentionally but that they have unconscious bias which is something a lot of people have. Whites also tend to get a better not just care but experience then minorities when being treated by paramedics or EMTs. 

The source of this article was Kaiser Health News, I think this is a reputable news agency for the topic since they Kaiser is also a hospital. I think this piece is based on fact because she talks about a study that happened and not just about her personal opinion. It is organized logically and the language is free of emotion-rousing buzzwords. I think the audience she is trying to reach would be people of minorities and also paramedics, to show the unconscious biases that go on in the field. I chose this article because biases in the medical field really does interest me, and it is interesting to see how they can actually affect someone in a negative way.