A Case of the Microaggression Mondays
Academic Medicine Podcast
English - December 14, 2020 12:00 - 8 minutes - 17.6 MB - ★★★★ - 43 ratingsEducation Health & Fitness Medicine faculty learners policy education medicine physicians storytelling trainees Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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“Beliefs that we are chemically different from one another can fuel bigotry. Despite what we know, we still use race as a static, unidirectional proxy for health and disease.”
Dr. Alex Sims recalls the race-based microaggression she experienced at the dentist and describes how it offers “a small window into the danger of race-based medicine.”
This essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the December 2020 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at academicmedicine.org.