PolicyNovember 1, 2015
How Doctors Can Confront Racial Bias in Medicine
To tackle it, doctors need to think hard about what it means to be “objective”
Stories by Rachel Pearson
Rachel Pearson is an M.D./Ph.D. candidate who will graduate from the Institute for the Medical Humanities and the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2016. For five years she volunteered at and directed one of the largest student-run free clinics in the country. Her book No Apparent Distress is forthcoming from W. W. Norton.