Changing How The Health Care Workforce Sees Patients Like Me

Authors

Maranda C. Ward, Maranda C. Ward (maranda@gwu.edu) is an assistant professor in clinical research and leadership at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in Washington, D.C. The author acknowledges Kathleen Petty and Tiana Ware of The Reis Group for their comments and assistance with earlier versions of this article. The author is solely responsible for the accuracy of the information presented in this article. Any views or opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author, and no endorsement of these views or opinions by the authors' institution is expressed or implied. The treatment coordinator's name is a pseudonym. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. To access the author's disclosures, click on the Details tab of the article online.

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

10-1-2023

Journal

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Volume

42

Issue

10

DOI

10.1377/hlthaff.2023.00459

Abstract

A police encounter at a dental office reveals how racism can operate on many levels.

APA Citation

Ward, Maranda C., "Changing How The Health Care Workforce Sees Patients Like Me" (2023). GW Authored Works. Paper 3667.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/gwhpubs/3667

Department

Clinical Research and Leadership