HLTC02H3 Lecture : Gamble.Week6.HLTC02.docx
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Week #6: sucutaneous scars: a black physician shares what if feels like to be on the receiving end of racial prejudice despite a successful career by. Faculty member at a midwestern university school of medicine. For medical professionals of color, they often face isolation, mistaken for janitors, maids and dietary workers, more intensely scrutinized than their white classmates by security guards and attending physicians. Despite our credentials, achievements and white jackets, our race would make it ipossible for some people to see us physicians. Possible remedies: increase number of faculty of color, augement the resources of the multicultural affairs office and add more multicultural topics to the curriculum. Stereotypical angry black woman: an impression that i did not want to leave on an audience who did not know me. Questioning of a person or mistaking them for a maid can impact self confidence of a person who has the same qualifications, the same.
