Seeing patients : unconscious bias in health care / Augustus A. White III, with David Chanoff.

By:

White, Augustus A., III, 1936- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Chanoff, David [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (x, 335 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674058774
0674058771

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Seeing patients.DDC classification:

362.1089/96073 22

LOC classification:

RD27.35.W53 A3 2011eb

NLM classification:

W 84 AA1

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Contents:

It takes a village: Memphis -- Scrub nurse -- Becoming a doctor: Stanford -- Becoming a surgeon: Yale -- Combat surgeon: death and our common humanity -- Getting toward equal: Sweden -- A man ain't nothin' but a man -- Orthopedic chief: Harvard -- Diagnosis and treatment: the subconscious at work -- Health-care disparities: race -- Health-care disparities: women, Hispanics, elderly, gay -- Culturally competent care.

Summary: " ... Use[s] extensive research and interviews with leading physicians to show how subconscious sterotyping influences doctor-patient interactions, diagnosis, and treatment"--Publisher description

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-319) and index.

" ... Use[s] extensive research and interviews with leading physicians to show how subconscious sterotyping influences doctor-patient interactions, diagnosis, and treatment"--Publisher description