Two family physicians reflect on white privilege in health care and the need for action

(American Academy of Family Physicians) "Our medical system is structured to individually and systemically favor white physicians and patients in ways that white people are trained to ignore," states family medicine resident Max Romano, M.D., MPH. In a related editorial, Joseph Hobbs, M.D., chair of family medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, cautions against allowing concepts such as white privilege, unconscious and implicit bias, and institutional racism to provide a means for avoiding personal responsibility for racism.

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