Dealing with racist comments by patients: dilemmas in the hospital and society

2019-03-20

University of Virginia. School of Medicine

One of medicine’s open secrets is that some patients request reassignment, or degrade, belittle, or harass health care professionals based on those professionals' race or ethnicity. Such patient conduct can raise thorny ethical, legal, and clinical challenges, and can be painful, confusing, and scarring for the physicians and other clinicians involved. This widely practiced, yet scarcely acknowledged, phenomenon poses a fundamental dilemma for law, medicine, and ethics. It also raises hard questions about how we should think about identity, health, and individual autonomy in the healthcare context and how we manage communication around representations of racial and ethnic bias. In this Koppaka Lecture, Drs. Lo and Paul-Emile will discuss their framework for considering and addressing this phenomenon.

The Koppaka Family Foundation Lecture in Medical Humanities

Lo, Bernard (Speaker); Paul-Emile, Kimani (Speaker); Childress, Marcia Day (Moderator); University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Filmed lectures

Racism in medicine; Discrimination; Physician and patient--Moral and ethical aspects

Medical Center Hour

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

English

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