Carla Mures HealthDay Reporter
(Health Day)
THURSDAY, Sept. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Asian American medical professionals commonly experience racial discrimination from both colleagues and patients, a new study finds, citing countless slurs and a lack of support. It claims to have been recorded.
Researcher David Yang, a fellow in emergency medicine at Yale School of Medicine, studied this issue from his own experience.
Yang, 32, a Chinese American, recalled racist comments linking her to the coronavirus, slurs from patients and being confused with other Asians.
“The conversations, the microaggressions, the discrimination that I experienced really resonated,” Yang said. NBC News. “All of the participants I spoke to generally felt unsupported by medical schools and felt that bringing up medical school support would cost their medical education.”
According to the accounts provided by those surveyed, discrimination was evident.
A Filipino-American medical student said that the parent of a patient once complained, [Asian] A nurse is taking care of my child because I don’t want him to get the coronavirus. ”
The 20 medical professionals surveyed included a Pakistani-American medical student who said his doctor had made Islamophobic jokes about him.
The doctor told the patients, “I’m going to call my Taliban friends to come after you.”
Asian women reported both racism and sexism, with one woman saying a patient told her, “You look very pretty.” You look like a china doll. ”
The pandemic has added another layer to racism. And overt racism and sexism weren’t the only problems.
“We mentor small groups and we’re supposed to be with them for four years, and one of them said it took the first year before he could tell me apart from the other East Asian men there. It took a while,” one participant said.
Yang’s research showed that medical students from Asian American groups frequently experience racial discrimination, and that schools do little about it.
Past research has shown that other minority health professionals face similar discrimination. This includes Black physicians who are marginalized in the workplace and in recruitment. NBC News report.
Yang said many of the survey participants said they didn’t know where to go for help or that their concerns were dismissed when they asked for help.
“Unfortunately, racial slurs like this happen all too often,” Yang said. “But we have to let that go and really focus on prioritizing patient care.”
This study found five major themes in the negative experiences of Asian American health care professionals. They are: invisibility as racial aggression, visibility and racial aggression, lack of experience for Asian Americans in medical school, being ignored while seeking support, and envisioning a future. was.
sauce: JAMA network openSeptember 11, 2023. NBC News
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