I want to specialize in emergency medicine but I keep hearing stories about how Black doctors in the ER get treated by police when they bring patients in, and I do not know if I can handle that psychological stress on top of the medical training.
More people experience this than they realize.
The person must weigh their professional aspirations against the additional psychological burden of navigating racial hostility in high-stress medical environments.
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