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How awareness of psychiatric racism creates clinical decision paralysis

I am a psychiatrist and I know that my Black male patients are more likely to be involuntarily committed, so I second-guess every decision I make about their care and I do not know if my hypervigilance is helping or hurting them.

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The person's knowledge of systemic bias creates a crisis of professional confidence that potentially compromises their ability to provide effective care.

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

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