How I deal with racist patients

[struggle4progress]

... Despite being born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, a city infamous for its former Jim Crow laws and the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, the most culturally insensitive conversations I’ve ever found myself in went something like this:

“Where are you from, darling?”

“Birmingham! I was born here.”

“No, no, where are you really from?” ...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/26/how-i-deal-with-racist-patients.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. It's a very good article.

I've had doctors with Indian ancestry, and we've always gotten along well.

It's a shame that some people cannot see past the skin color of their doctors. That's a very poor way to judge anyone.

[struggle4progress]

4. I really don't understand people's fears and anxieties

[Kath1]

2. When the patient requested "no Indian doctors"

I would have liked to have requested that he go fuck himself. I know you can't do that in a service or medical job (because I have one), but that thought would be foremost in my mind.

[KT2000]

3. A patient's first concern

should be to get the best doctor for the condition. But people can be pretty stupid. I think it is called cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.