(from the January 2016 ACP Hospitalist)
Physicians work to identify and respond to their own biases.
By Mollie Durkin
Growing up in rural Alabama at a time of segregated waiting rooms and physicians who refused to touch black patients, Ron Wyatt, MD, MHA, ACP Member, saw health care disparities firsthand. “And frankly, I had never met a black physician,” he said.
Dr. Wyatt recalled a close family member—a poor, mostly illiterate man in his 60s—who died in the hospital of a ruptured appendix without being seen by a physician. Although black patients may be treated better now, he said, disparities in care insidiously persist.
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