RT Journal
A1 Berger J
T1 CUlture clash
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1999
FD June 28
VO 159
IS 12
SP 1373
OP 1374
DO 
UL http://dx.doi.org/
AB 
Increasing the representation of cultural minorities in the health care professions, as is suggested, is important and desirable. This change likely will influence general medical culture, perhaps to increase its recognition of and tolerance for diversity. However, it does not necessarily follow that individual physicians will be more knowledgeable about the variety of culturally based norms commonly encountered in patient care. Furthermore, efforts to increase ethnocultural diversity among providers does not address concerns that care provided by individual practitioners is biased by the practitioner's culture. Educators should pursue recommendations for improving physicians' personal insight into their own cultural biases.1