Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674049055 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
If you’re going to have a heart attack, an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here’s the key to getting the very best medical care: be a white, straight, middle-class male. White and co-author David Chanoff use extensive research and interviews with leading physicians to show how subconscious stereotyping influences doctor-patient interactions, diagnosis, and treatment. Their book brings together insights from the worlds of social psychology, neuroscience, and clinical practice to define the issues clearly and, most importantly, to outline a concrete approach to fixing this fundamental inequity in the delivery of health care.. And while race relations have changed dramatically, old ways of thinking die hard. In Seeing Patients White draws upon his experience in startlingly different worlds to make sense of the unconscious bias that riddles medical treatment, and to explore what it means for health care in a diverse twenty-first-century America. This book by a pioneering black surgeon take
From Publishers Weekly When White attended Stanford in the late '50s he was one of four students of color. Accessible, thought-provoking, and valuable. Eight of the 12 chapters tell his amazing story, from his birth in 1936 in a segregated Memphis (his trailblazing father, a doctor, died when White was only eight), to a 1967 tour of Vietnam wherein White worked in a leprosarium, to a fellowship at a biomechanics lab in Sweden, to his appointment to head a new orthopedic academic program at Harvard. Now White recounts his ground-breaking life in an engaging, matter-of-fact manner. All rights reserved. Challenges exist on both sides of the stethoscope, White argues, noting that the uncertainty felt by many African-American patients over how they will be perceived also impacts the medi
It's slow growing but getting better Roger J. Malebranche I am in my 70s and can identify with Dr White's experiences. Being from Haiti I was not prepared for the harsh realities of the White American racism of the early 60s, but like Dr White I managed to persevere and survive. I wish I could have reached the position of power he is in but few physicians, Black or White, will and the advice I would give a fellow Black p. Amy said Well-written and compelling. This is a well-written and compelling book. However, the book was far more autobiographical than I expected or than the title implied to me. Health care disparities has been a research area for me, so I was hoping for something that synthesized the history and research in greater depth than this book does. That being said this is a great introduction to the topic . "A superb biography and call to arms to ensure that all patients receive equal care, essential reading for clinicians & patients" according to Darryl R. Morris. Dr. Augustus A. White III, the son of a physician in segregated Memphis, graduate of Brown (undergraduate degree in psychology), Stanford (medical school) and Yale (residency), Vietnam War combat surgeon, renowned orthopaedic surgeon and researcher, first African American to chair a department at Harvard Medical School, and former master of the Oliver Wendell Holm