Dismissed: Tackling the Biases That Undermine Our Health Care

by Kathy Palokoff and Angela Marshall

Book Overview

Health-care providers and their patients are human, and all humans have unconscious biases that affect how we listen, observe, and act. Bias impacts patients when they are at their most vulnerable. Health-care bias can mean the difference not just between suffering and relief, but between life and death.For the first time, an author with the unique perspective of being one of America's top doctors, a woman, and Black, candidly addresses the issue...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806542047
• ISBN13: 9780806542041
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"