Gitanjli (Tanya) Arora, MD

Attending Physician, Palliative Care at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

A physician on talking honestly about unconscious bias in the medical system: As people, we all have biases.

A pediatrician acknowledges that pediatric clinicians understandably define themselves as ‘good people’ and that makes it hard to also make room for inherent unconscious bias. “And what I would say is that we all have implicit bias. It is not that we are not good people, it’s just that we are people. And so if we can get past how we define ourselves as ‘good people cannot have bias,’ then I think then we can get to that next level.”