Published in:
01-06-2018 | Concise Research Reports
Prejudice in Perceptions of Physicians?: The Influence of Race and Gender on Evaluations of Medical Errors
Authors:
N. Derek Brown, B.A., Larry R. Martinez, Ph.D., Michelle “Mikki” R. Hebl, Ph.D.
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 6/2018
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Excerpt
Little is known about prejudicial attitudes patients have toward physicians. Past research shows that physicians commonly face discrimination
1–3, and although Asian physicians constitute the largest ethnic minority population of practicing physicians,
4, there is no research that examines their experiences with discrimination explicitly. Asian professionals are subject to both positive and negative stereotypes, such that they are categorized as high-achieving (e.g., intelligent, successful), yet also perpetually foreign and never accepted into the American milieu.
5 This research examined how patient biases can influence evaluations of physicians as a function of physician race, gender, and severity of a medical error. …
