Summary Of Racism In Health Care

Research on the article “Patients’ beliefs about racism, preferences for physician race, and satisfaction with care” was conducted to better understand how patients perceive “racism in health care” (Chen et al. 138) and how they have been affected by health care in the past. In this study, researchers sampled a diverse population of “Whites, African Americans, and Latinos/as” (Chen et al. 138) and performed “telephone surveys” (138) to question more about how they interacted and perceived racism in their physician’s care. Through these surveys, researchers determined that many of the African Americans and Latinos felt that there was racism in healthcare and preferred a physician “of their own race or ethnicity” (Chen et al. 138).
This study