The doctor is in, but please check your bias at the door

“What’s the deal with your people?”

As a baffled second-year resident, I looked up through my scrub mask at the Caucasian female attending with whom I was operating. I had an idea about what she was referring to as I overheard her complain about a laboring patient while she was scrubbing with the other Caucasian attending who was operating in the room next door.

“She acts as if she has never had …

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