Bias, Racism, and Harassment in Our Workplace

In the U.S. — and its healthcare workforce — increasing diversity of race/ethnicity, religion, nationality, and sexuality has brought rising recognition of the prevalence of bias and harassment in the workplace. Recently publicized instances of such prejudices triggered an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists policy statement on racial bias and a series of articles describing providers' experience with bias in the workplace while offering an actionable framework to combat this substantial problem.

Several personal narratives were shared, ranging from patients' blatantly racist statements to a medical student to the communal response of an academic program when confronted with evidence of bias toward its trainees. In a powerful…