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01-12-2018 | Capsule Commentary
Capsule Commentary on Crapanzano et al., An Exploration of Residents’ Implicit Biases Towards Depression—a Pilot Study
Author:
Andrew C. Furman, M.D.
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 12/2018
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Excerpt
Crapanzano et al.
1 address an important concern that medicine as a profession is only beginning to acknowledge and moves the field in a direction towards increasing awareness and unbiased treatment. The majority of the regrettably sparse literature on the subject addresses implicit racial and ethnic assumptions in medical student
2 and physician
3 contributions to healthcare disparities and racial and ethnic stigmatization. Similarly, there is a paucity of empirical research on implicit biases regarding mental illness and the resulting negative impact on care of this vulnerable population.
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