The Necessity of Decoding the Racial Scripts of Daily Life
5 min readMay 2, 2022
“We know you think we are racist! You are the racist one!”
The nurse declared this boldly and loudly in protest of the clinical decision I made as we stood in a small clinical room in earshot of patients. As one of two chief residents of medical education on an inpatient psychiatric floor, it was my responsibility to handle clinical and administrative decisions…