Doctors and Racial Bias: Still a Long Way to Go [nytimes.com]

Alicia Doktor 2/26/194:00 AM

The racist photo in the medical school yearbook page of Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia has probably caused many physicians to re-examine their past.

We hope we are better today, but the research is not as encouraging as you might think: There is still a long way to go in how the medical field treats minority patients, especially African-Americans.

A systematic review published in Academic Emergency Medicine gathered all the research on physicians that measured implicit bias with the Implicit Association Test and included some assessment of clinical decision making. Most of the nine studies used vignettes to test what physicians would do in certain situations.

[For more on this story by Aaron E. Carroll, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...-long-way-to-go.html]

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