Confronting Bias and Discrimination in Health Care—When Silence Is Not Golden

Lisa A. Cooper; Mary Catherine Beach; David R. Williams

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.4100

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October 28, 2019

Confronting Bias and Discrimination in Health Care—When Silence Is Not Golden

Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH^1,2; Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH^1,3; David R. Williams, PhD, MPH^4,5

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¹Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
²Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
³Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
⁴Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
⁵Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

JAMA Intern Med. 2019;179(12):1686-1687. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.4100

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November 4, 2019

Implicit Male Patient Bias/ Discrimination

R Rozak, MA | University Education

Does bias or discrimination in health care include bias or discrimination towards the male patient? Is the male patient’s request for all-male care respected with the same urgency as that of a female patient requesting all-female care? Are male patients afforded the same dignity regarding bodily exposure as female patients? Is there evidence-based criterion for having female nurses for male urology but, absolutely no males in mammography? Why are these issues not addressed as correlates to bias and discrimination in health care?

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