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When patients question your medical authority because of your race and gender

I am a Black woman physician and my white patients regularly question my competence in ways I know they would never question a white male doctor, and I am exhausted from having to prove myself over and over again.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The person experiences the compounding effects of racial and gender bias that forces them to constantly re-establish their professional credibility.

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“Where Are You with Healthcare equity and structural racism in medicine?”

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