The Impact of Patient Prejudice on Minoritized Female Physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient bias and prejudice directed against physicians from diverse backgrounds is a frequent occurrence in healthcare. Female physicians have long experienced discrimination in the healthcare system based on their gender alone. The dynamic known as Patient Prejudice toward Providers (PPtP) is disproportionately affecting female physicians because it is frequently compounded by sexism.

Aim

The goal of this study was to explore the impact of PPtP on female resident and attending physicians.

Methods

Using transcribed one-on-one interviews from a larger study of PPtP affecting resident and attending physicians, ten interviews with female physicians (resident and attending) from diverse ethnic backgrounds and countries of training at a large academic medical ce

SUBMITTER: Dellasega C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9294398 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature