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Addressing the caste system in U.S. healthcare in the era of COVID-19 by Sivashanker, Karthik; Couillard, Cheri; Goldsmith, Jennifer; Walker, Normella; Eappen, Sunil is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Addressing the caste system in U.S. healthcare in the era of COVID-19 about?
## Abstract In healthcare, we find an industry that typifies the unique blend of racism, classism, and other forms of structural discrimination that comprise the U.S. caste system—the artificially-constructed and legally-reinforced social hierarchy for assigning worth and determining opportunity for individuals based on race, class, and other factors. Despite myths of meritocracy, healthcare is actually a casteocracy; and conversations about racism in healthcare largely occupy an echo chamber among the privileged upper caste of hospital professionals. To address racism in healthcare, we must consider the history that brought us here and understand how we effectively perpetuate an employee caste system within our own walls.
Who reads Addressing the caste system in U.S. healthcare in the era of COVID-19?
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- Author
- Sivashanker, Karthik; Couillard, Cheri; Goldsmith, Jennifer; Walker, Normella; Eappen, Sunil
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central, 2002-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1475-9276)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)