Search Tag: discrimination

Executive Health Management

Doctor-discrimination-how-to-deal-with-it

2016 31 Oct

Following an incident of discrimination against medics in an emergency department led to a team of Stanford University School of Medicine doctors detailing a strategy for how medics, both residents and physicians, can respond to discrimination from patients and their families.   In the incident, the father of a little boy asked an intern...Read more

Executive Health Management

Dealing-with-transgender-patients

2016 07 Feb

A pilot training program that was implemented in an urban clinic shows that it is possible to change attitudes towards transgender individuals and alleviate their discrimination and mistreatment through specialised provider training to increase knowledge about transgender health and needs as well as positive attitudes. The article " Implementation...Read more