New results suggest that even when white patients attempt to cast aside their idea of what a doctor should look like, their unconscious bias against women and Black health care providers lingers and can undermine their healing.
Your unconscious biases might be affecting your health care, at least if you’re white. In a new study, health care providers gave nearly 200 white participants an allergen that caused their skin to swell. They then applied a placebo cream while telling the volunteers it was an antihistamine to reduce the allergic reaction. The placebo reduced swelling in those treated by white and Asian men. But
as well in the white people treated by women or Black health care providers, even if the study volunteers rated these providers as just as qualified,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , suggest that even when white patients attempt to cast aside their idea of what a doctor should look like, their
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