Forbes August 29, 2021
In New York and Chicago, Cardinale Smith and Charlene Hope are pioneering equity innovations aimed at the inferior care minorities too often experience even when providers’ intentions are good. That problem is called “unconscious bias,” and Smith and Hope’s efforts to eradicate it could significantly improve care for everyone.
Unconscious or “implicit” bias refers to the instinctive stereotyping all of us are prone to practice. Not surprisingly, “health care professionals exhibit the same levels of this bias as the wider population,” a systematic review found. That, in turn, can “influence diagnosis and treatment decisions and levels of care,” even when providers are consciously committed to impartiality.
But unconscious bias isn’t only about race. Ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, age, weight and...
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