The flaw of medicine: addressing racial and gender disparities in critical care.

Ebony J Hilton; Kristina L Goff; Roshni Sreedharan; Nadia Lunardi; Mariam Batakji; Dorothea S Rosenberger

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The flaw of medicine: addressing racial and gender disparities in critical care.

May 27, 2020

Hilton EJ, Goff KL, Sreedharan R, et al. Anesthesiol Clin. 2020;38(2):357-368.

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This article discusses the presence of gender and race health disparities in critical care and the role of physicians, in particular, in navigating the influence of explicit and implicit bias in order to provide safe care to all patients.

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