LibraryScenariosWhen trusting healthcare providers feels complicated by racial bias
Scenario

When trusting healthcare providers feels complicated by racial bias

My teenage daughter needs surgery and I keep wondering if the surgeon would take more care if we were white, but I feel guilty for even thinking that because this doctor seems kind and competent.

Dipa
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The person struggles with the cognitive dissonance of needing to trust a system they know has historically failed people who look like them.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.