Physician Perspectives on Responding to Clinician-Perpetuated Interpersonal Racism Against Black Patients with Serious Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Racism negatively affects clinical outcomes in Black patients, but uncertainty remains among physicians regarding how to address interpersonal anti-Black racism incidences involving them to facilitate racial healing and promote accountability.

Objective

Elicit physician perspectives on addressing concerns from Black patients about interpersonal racism involving them or their team.

Participants

Twenty-one physician subspecialists at an urban academic medical center.

Approach

We conducted one-on-one semi-structured interviews to help inform the development of a clinician-facing component of a program to address the distress of racism experienced by Black patients with serious illness. We asked clinicians to describe experiences discussing racism with p

SUBMITTER: Brown CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11306464 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature