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When constant questioning of your authority undermines your confidence

The nurses always ask me twice about my orders and I know it is because I look young and Brown, but I am starting to second-guess myself on everything even when I know I am right.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You are internalizing others' racial bias as self-doubt, allowing external discrimination to erode your clinical judgment and professional self-worth.

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

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