When Patients are Biased The apparent conflict between patient rights and non-discriminatory policies is complex. However, organizations create an ethical and practical slippery slope when they meet patient demands for providers with specific (clinically irrelevant) characteristics. If a request for a provider with a specific skin tone is honored, must patient requests for a provider…
In addition to directing Partners in Equity & Inclusion (diversity & inclusion climate assessment, training, consulting) I am also a researcher studying racial and other inequalities in health care. Given the atrocities around us (and, of course, the unbearable cesspool of the Trump Campaign) it’s been hard to just continue on with the same research…
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Having a writers block made out of a mountain of grief and horror. The cool rationale language of research publications feels so inappropriate given what’s happening. I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s like for my colleagues of color- the courage it takes to show up every day when surrounded by indifferent whiteness is…
