Medical trainees and physicians must be vigilant against biases, including their own

摘要

However, one important thing minority groups in the United States share is the perception of their race by others. As Dr. Camara Jones explains in a 2000 article in the Journal of Public Health, "The race noted on a health form is the same race noted by a sales clerk, a police officer or a judge, and this racial classification has a profound impact on daily life experience in this country. That is, the variable 'race' is not a biological construct that reflects innate differences, but a social construct that precisely captures the impacts of racism. For this reason, some investigators now hypothesize that race-associated differences in health outcomes are, in fact, due to the effects of racism."