Study Offers Young Doctors Strategies To Deal With Discrimination [CaliforniaHealthline.org]
In July 2013, a man arrived in the emergency room of a California hospital seeking treatment for his child. But when the intern on call walked in to see him, the father looked at her name tag and demanded another physician. As a Palestinian, he didn’t want his child treated by a Jewish doctor. The intern turned to her resident supervisor, Emily Whitgob, who told her colleagues about the incident. The episode helped motivate Whitgob to study how doctors in training and their institutions...