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When you question whether workplace corrections are microaggressions

I am a Black resident and my attending physician keeps correcting my medical Spanish in front of patients even though I am fluent and he barely speaks it, and I cannot tell if I am being oversensitive or if this is what microaggressions actually look like.

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The cumulative weight of small slights creates a fog of doubt about one's own perceptions and competence.

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