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White Privilege in a White Coat: How Racism Shaped my Medical Education
Annals of Family Medicine ^ | May 14, 2018 | Max J. Romano, MD, MPH

Posted on 05/14/2018 11:15:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

In this essay, I reflect on some of the ways racial privilege influenced my experience as a white physician in training. While white Americans often think of “racism” as a social construct primarily affecting people of color, “racism” is a system of both racial disadvantage as well as reciprocal racial advantage.

Medical professionals are increasingly aware of how social determinants of health lead to important health disparities, however white physicians seldom ask how their own racial privilege reinforces a white supremacist culture and what effects this may have on our patients’ health.

Drawing attention to the powerful legacy of racial discrimination in medical institutions, I call on other white physicians to name their privilege in order to dismantle the systems that propagate racism in our profession.

Although systems of racial oppression take generations to dismantle, we must begin with an awareness of the problem. As I reflect on that bullet-riddled body and the callousness with which my colleagues mocked the memory of his life, I think of the important work we have left to do.

White physicians have an opportunity to acknowledge the unearned racial privilege that benefited their careers and actively work to dismantle the systems that propagate racism in medicine. I challenge other white physicians to speak out against the racism we have all benefited from and to work towards racial justice in our medical system for our colleagues and our patients.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fakenews; myth; progressives; racepimp; racism; whiteprivilege
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
What a flake. Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.

21 posted on 05/14/2018 11:37:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Found him on Twitter. He’s worried about Emmett Till.


22 posted on 05/14/2018 11:42:57 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He lives with his spouse. I’m guessing he has gay privileges, too.


23 posted on 05/14/2018 11:46:06 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Amazingly, none of this “privilege” nonsense seems to have bothered or inhibited Ben Carson, M.D. at all...how’d that happen? /s


24 posted on 05/14/2018 11:48:55 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: DLfromthedesert

“What gender is his spouse?”

Glad to see I’m not the only FReeper with that thought this afternoon. Flaming faggotry just seems to abound everywhere today, well out of proportion to their actual numbers.


25 posted on 05/14/2018 12:00:35 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I recommend his white patients who want to trust their doctor change doctors immediately.


26 posted on 05/14/2018 12:07:16 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why doesn’t this burdened white man give up his privileged position to a minority and get on the back of a garbage truck to show how really sorry he is to be white?


27 posted on 05/14/2018 12:09:30 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Medical professionals”

I sense medical privilege and medical snobbery. Who are medical nonprofessionals? Whoever they are, they don’t count with him.


28 posted on 05/14/2018 12:10:55 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: T-Bird45

“Flaming faggotry just seems to abound everywhere today, well out of proportion to their actual numbers.”
No kidding, just watch Sunday Morning on SeeBS.
Same script every week. Trash Republicans, promote diversity/perversity and always have a gay something or other every week.
I told my wife once, now watch, now comes the gay section of the show. Sure enough there is always one or more special interest faggotry story lines.


29 posted on 05/14/2018 12:14:05 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: woweeitsme

The leftoids obviously skip over the saying of Frederick Douglass which goes like this (parphr.): If the Negro cannot stand on his own two feet, then let him fall. Douglass was fully confident that Black people could do just fine on their own, IMO.


30 posted on 05/14/2018 12:15:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: 9422WMR

Yup, total agreement on the Sunday Morning show. I still like the other features, just get tired of the never-ending shoving of fruits in my face. Even worse is the Sunday evening PBS Brit-poofter line-up on Masterpiece Theater.

The “love that dare not speak its name” (Lord Alfred Douglas, 1894) to the “love that won’t STFU!”


31 posted on 05/14/2018 12:31:13 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

At my son’s graduation this past weekend, about 2/3 of the graduating class in his department, Biological Sciences, were women. Of the men graduating about half were caucasian. Males, white males specifically, are being pushed out of stem programs from what I can see in favor of women and minorities. It’s going to be a hard slog in the medical field. This guy is a gas bag lacking in wisdom.


32 posted on 05/14/2018 1:13:00 PM PDT by punknpuss
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And the real world result of not holding everyone to the same high standards? - third world medicine and racism.

For example:

Based on two highly negative experiences, one which almost cost my wife her life, I will not accept a black or brown doctor in an emergency situation. It deeply pains me to have to behave that way but my family comes first. Too many MD’s these days get their degrees overseas and too many are quotas. I know there are brilliant doctors of all races. I’m just not willing to play Russian roulette again.

I’m not Jewish but I seek out Jewish doctors. Yes I know there are bad apples there also - I’m just playing the odds.

So I am a racist. Yuck.


33 posted on 05/14/2018 1:15:55 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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"Males, white males specifically, are being pushed out of stem programs from what I can see in favor of women and minorities."

And they wonder why the bridges fall down.


34 posted on 05/14/2018 1:18:11 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: woweeitsme

Kanye is right?


35 posted on 05/14/2018 1:22:33 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The only black physician I ever went to was the result of being in an HMO. He was a podiatrist who seemed terrified of the responsibility. I stick with my racist choices now.


36 posted on 05/14/2018 1:26:24 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trust me Max, your opinion will be the farthest thing from other Doctor’s minds at work or when they golf on their off days.


37 posted on 05/14/2018 1:40:16 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Needs a Barf! Alert.


38 posted on 05/14/2018 2:32:13 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: PLMerite

The media won’t say a peep about that bridge. Here in NC they are starting programs in vocational schools promoting women in the trades. Eventually men will be pushed out of those classes and women will be given preference. I hate feminism and liberals squawking about toxic masculinity and white male privilege.


39 posted on 05/14/2018 2:46:18 PM PDT by punknpuss
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m guessing the “spouse” is a dude - another sick twink lecturing to the sane folks....


40 posted on 05/15/2018 2:15:41 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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