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“I Want a Doctor Who Looks Like Me!”: Managing Race-Based Patient Requests

October 18, 2022 Biases, Discrimination, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, race-based patient requests, racial/cultural concordance, Upstander

The similar-to-me effect is a cognitive bias related to the idea that people have a preference for those that are similar – look, act and think like us. Drs.

From the Labs: Image of the Month

From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma