MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Ann Fam Med. 2018 May;16(3):261-263. doi: 10.1370/afm.2231.
In this essay, I reflect on some of the ways racial privilege influenced my experience as a white physician in training. While white Americans often think of "racism" as a social construct primarily affecting people of color, "racism" is a system of both racial disadvantage as well as reciprocal racial advantage. Medical professionals are increasingly aware of how social determinants of health lead to important health disparities, however white physicians seldom ask how their own racial privilege reinforces a white supremacist culture and what effects this may have on our patients' health. Drawing attention to the powerful legacy of racial discrimination in medical institutions, I call on other white physicians to name their privilege in order to dismantle the systems that propagate racism in our profession.
在这篇文章中，我反思了一些种族特权影响我作为一名白人受训医生的经历的方式。虽然美国白人通常认为“种族主义”是一种主要影响有色人种的社会建构，但“种族主义”是一个种族劣势和互惠种族优势的系统。医疗专业人员越来越意识到健康的社会决定因素如何导致重要的健康差距，但白人医生很少问自己的种族特权如何加强白人至上主义文化，以及这对我们患者的健康可能产生什么影响。我提请其他白人医生注意医疗机构中种族歧视的强大遗产，呼吁他们承认自己的特权，以打破我们职业中存在的种族主义制度。
