A physician’s experience of bigotry in medicine

“So now you think I have all these implicit biases, don’t you?”

My Caucasian attending rolls his chair towards me. The words are already out of his mouth. And now I’m acutely aware, once again, that I’m African-American, gay, and in a position of hierarchical vulnerability. I’m alone in this room with him. All because I wanted to privately address that he called me the name of the only …

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