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Black Patients Dress Up and Modify Speech to Reduce Bias, California Survey Shows

By Annie Sciacca A young mother in California’s Antelope Valley bathes her children and dresses them in neat clothes, making sure they look their very best — at medical appointments. “I brush their teeth before they see the dentist. Just little things like that to protect myself from being treated unfairly,” she told researchers. A […]