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...heart attacks were far less-likely to receive a key blood clot-busting procedure called thrombolysis has been known for some time, but the new study determined that there exist distinct “pro-white, anti-black” race biases, according to study co-author Alexander R. Green, a doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School...
...most part, other people who had been studied using these relatively new cognitive tests showed race biases,” Green said. “We suspected that we would find unconscious biases in resident physicians, because they are people like everyone else...
...Green said that while the study reveals bias regarding the prescription of treatment, it’s unclear whether the administration of that treatment would be affected by those biases...
...Green said the reason for such differences in bias is largely cultural...
...It’s the culture’s thumb print in our minds,” Green said. “If you’re raised in this country in a certain social group, with certain media, your mind is conditioned in a certain way. You may be able to override that conditioning, but the bottom line is that those subconscious connections are very deep in our minds, whether we want them to be there...