Mary Brandt
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Recognizing implicit bias is the first step; it exists in 100% of people, it's not your fault (media and society reinforce it), but you have a responsibility to behave differently.
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Cancer
Microaggressions are 'very tiny paper cuts'—not blatant prejudice but repeated small insults (e.g., men talking over women, 'mansplaining,' 'he-peats') that take a toll over time.
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Cancer
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Unconscious Bias
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there's absolutely no one who recognizes they have implicit bias. No one. And the flip side of that is that everyone has it.
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No one recognizes they have implicit bias, and everyone has it to different degrees about different groups (religions, gender, sexual preference).
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Anyone not in the dominant group (white male Protestants) will have experienced implicit bias; women in surgery and medicine universally have.
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Microaggressions are 'very tiny paper cuts'—not blatant prejudice but repeated small insults (e.g., men talking over women, 'mansplaining,' 'he-peats') that take a toll over time.
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these very tiny paper cuts. We're not stabbing someone, not being, you know, blatantly prejudiced against them, but these little tiny paper cuts.
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People in dominant positions are responsible for calling out microaggressions and bias, not those experiencing them.
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it's actually not your two female residents' responsibility how they did that. It was your responsibility to point out that they did it and they shouldn't.
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If you are in a dominant group (white, male, Protestant, cisgender), you never have to think about your social identity during interactions—'you've never had to think about what's water.'
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Recognizing implicit bias is the first step; it exists in 100% of people, it's not your fault (media and society reinforce it), but you have a responsibility to behave differently.
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Addressing implicit bias is hard work, a journey that will make you extremely uncomfortable; when you get uncomfortable, that means you're making progress.
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Robin DiAngelo's book *White Fragility* explains how pervasive race issues are in society and how white people have a responsibility to respond appropriately; it addresses the defensive 'I'm not biased' reaction.
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Mary Brandt's three key points: (1) you have implicit biases that are getting in your way; (2) they hurt individuals and the profession by preventing diverse hiring/retention; (3) addressing this takes courage, and those in power must call out bias when it happens.
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the people that need to stand up and call this out when it happens are the people that are in power
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Mary's statements about Pain 14 statements
Unconscious Bias
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there's absolutely no one who recognizes they have implicit bias. No one. And the flip side of that is that everyone has it.
Open
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No one recognizes they have implicit bias, and everyone has it to different degrees about different groups (religions, gender, sexual preference).
Open
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Anyone not in the dominant group (white male Protestants) will have experienced implicit bias; women in surgery and medicine universally have.
Open
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Microaggressions are 'very tiny paper cuts'—not blatant prejudice but repeated small insults (e.g., men talking over women, 'mansplaining,' 'he-peats') that take a toll over time.
Open
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these very tiny paper cuts. We're not stabbing someone, not being, you know, blatantly prejudiced against them, but these little tiny paper cuts.
Open
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People in dominant positions are responsible for calling out microaggressions and bias, not those experiencing them.
Open
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it's actually not your two female residents' responsibility how they did that. It was your responsibility to point out that they did it and they shouldn't.
Open
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If you are in a dominant group (white, male, Protestant, cisgender), you never have to think about your social identity during interactions—'you've never had to think about what's water.'
Open
Statement
Recognizing implicit bias is the first step; it exists in 100% of people, it's not your fault (media and society reinforce it), but you have a responsibility to behave differently.
Open
Statement
Addressing implicit bias is hard work, a journey that will make you extremely uncomfortable; when you get uncomfortable, that means you're making progress.
Open
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Robin DiAngelo's book *White Fragility* explains how pervasive race issues are in society and how white people have a responsibility to respond appropriately; it addresses the defensive 'I'm not biased' reaction.
Open
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Mary Brandt's three key points: (1) you have implicit biases that are getting in your way; (2) they hurt individuals and the profession by preventing diverse hiring/retention; (3) addressing this takes courage, and those in power must call out bias when it happens.
Open
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the people that need to stand up and call this out when it happens are the people that are in power
Open
Summaries Mary gave as host · 8 summaries
Recaps of other experts' statements, not Mary's own clinical position.
Summaries Mary gave as host · Cancer 4 summaries
Unconscious Bias
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Mary Brandt summarizing the discussion: Implicit bias is defined by the Kirwan Institute at Ohio State as 'the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner.'
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Mary Brandt summarizing the discussion: implicit bias is the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner
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Mary Brandt summarizing the discussion: In a study of diverse doctors, minority children were consistently given less pain medicine than white children, with no reason except implicit bias and stereotypes.
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Mary Brandt summarizing the discussion: Social identity is 'the portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group' (gender, sexual orientation, etc.).
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Summaries Mary gave as host · Pain 4 summaries
Unconscious Bias
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Mary Brandt summarizing the discussion: Implicit bias is defined by the Kirwan Institute at Ohio State as 'the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner.'
Open
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Mary Brandt summarizing the discussion: implicit bias is the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner
Open
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Mary Brandt summarizing the discussion: In a study of diverse doctors, minority children were consistently given less pain medicine than white children, with no reason except implicit bias and stereotypes.
Open
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Mary Brandt summarizing the discussion: Social identity is 'the portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group' (gender, sexual orientation, etc.).
Open