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Scenario

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.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

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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Dipa
Dipa works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

Peri

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