White patients' physical responses to healthcare treatments are influenced by provider race and gender.

ABSTRACT: The healthcare workforce in the United States is becoming increasingly diverse, gradually shifting society away from the historical overrepresentation of White men among physicians. However, given the long-standing underrepresentation of people of color and women in the medical field, patients may still associate the concept of doctors with White men and may be physiologically less responsive to treatment administered by providers from other backgrounds. To investigate this, we varied the race and gender of the provider from which White patients received identical treatment for allergic reactions and measured patients' improvement in response to this treatment, thus isolating how a provider's demographic characteristics shape physical responses to healthcare. A total of 187 White patients

SUBMITTER: Howe LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9271156 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature