Health Equity

Op-Ed: Even as more Asian Americans become doctors, workplace bias flourishes

Abstract: I am a surgeon in a privileged profession, but structural anti-Asian racism plagues medicine as it does other sectors of society.

Publication: The Los Angeles Times

Date Published: April 12, 2021

Author(s): Pauline W. Chen

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