Why pediatricians must talk to their patients about diversity
“I don’t understand, and no one will explain why it happened.” Jake, my adolescent patient, lamented his experience to me during his well-child visit. “Those boys say that people like me are the devil. They don’t even know me. I’m a good person.” Hours before seeing me in clinic that day, a group of minority teens had confronted Jake while at a local youth community center because he was “the …
