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When struggling feels like validating stereotypes

I got into medical school through a program designed to increase diversity, and now I am failing anatomy and wondering if I am proving everyone right who said I did not belong here.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The fear of confirming prejudicial assumptions adds crushing pressure to normal human difficulties.

Ideas that help explain it
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