“The consultant who's coming down to take care of my child — is that doctor going to be Jewish?” he asked. “I really don't want a Jewish doctor.”
When the intern later relayed this encounter to Whitgob, it led to an important question: How should doctors and their supervisors handle discriminatory requests?
Shocked by her resident's experience and the lack of guidance provided by hospitals and medical schools, Whitgob decided to create new guidelines on how to handle discrimination from patients, now published in the journal Academic Medicine.
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