Anthropologist Khiara Bridges studied the health care that pregnant women on Medicaid received at a large hospital in New York City. While the patients are mostly black, the doctors working at the hospital are mostly white. Identify whether or not these are ways that patients are categorized and treated at this hospital, dubbed Alpha Hospital.

Ways Medicaid Patients Are Treated at Alpha Hospital

a. Patients of color are called "primitive" and are assumed able to endure more pain than white patients.

b. Patients are categorized as "at risk" and must undergo more testing than patients not on Medicaid.

c. Not Ways Medicaid Patients Are Treated at Alpha Hospital

d. Patients are given access to holistic healing methods when they ask for them.

e. Patients are called "weak" and given more medication than non-Medicaid patients.

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