One in four children live in an immigrant family, meaning that they have at least one parent born outside the US [5]. Besides restrictions to healthcare, these children face life stressors unique to their population group including fear of deportation, family separation, xenophobia, and racism…
Read MoreHistorically bias was a synonym of preference. In psychology and anthropology bias is defined as an inherited preference or learned preference. For example, an inherited dislike of bitter foods. In this way, bias is seen as a conserved evolutionary trait because of how it connoted a survival benefit…
Read MoreA 25-year-old woman with a past medical history of anxiety presents to the emergency department with right sided chest pain. She describes approximately two hours prior to arrival, she tripped in the bathroom while bathing her child, striking the right side of her chest on the tub. She denies head strike or loss of consciousness, shortness of breath or abdominal pain…
Read MoreResearch has demonstrated significant disparities in healthcare access and quality as well as health outcomes for communities that have been historically marginalized or excluded. Diagnostic imaging—and differences in clinical decision-making around which patients undergo imaging and when—is one such area that has been a topic of interest in recent literature…
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