Yale University Department of Psychiatry, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, Connecticut
Ann Fam Med. 2021 Jan-Feb;19(1):72-74. doi: 10.1370/afm.2637.
A patient shouts what he suspects is my racial background at my face. A colleague repeats a patient's racist remarks against me; I lurk in my whiteness to cope. A compliment about my Asianness lands as a racist devaluation of both sides of my heritage. The medical licensing board does not include my race on its registration form. Straddling the boundary of Asian and White as a biracial female psychiatrist, I struggle to handle exoticization, discriminatory assumptions, and subtle marginalization by patients and colleagues. I grapple with the privilege of light-skinned ethnic ambiguity vs the disrespect for having features deviating from the imagined physician appearance. In this piece, I introduce a nuanced dialog about race and advocate for recognition and inclusion of biracial and multiracial minority medical practitioners who defy oversimplified racial categories.
一位患者当着我的面大声说出他怀疑的我的种族背景。一位同事重复了患者对我的种族歧视言论；我躲在我的白色人种身份后面应对。对我的亚裔身份的赞扬却被贬低为对我族裔身份的双重歧视。医疗执照管理局在其登记表上没有包括我的种族。作为一名跨种族的女性精神病医生，我在亚洲人和白人之间徘徊，努力应对患者和同事的异国化、歧视性假设和微妙的边缘化。我在处理浅肤色的种族模糊性的特权与因与想象中的医生形象不符的特征而受到不尊重之间挣扎。在这篇文章中，我引入了一个关于种族的细致入微的对话，并倡导承认和包容那些挑战过于简单的种族分类的跨种族和多种族少数民族医疗从业者。
