RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Minority Tax: Stories from Family Physicians
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 969
OP 973
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2023.230495R1
VO 37
IS 5
A1 Santiago-Delgado, Zuleica
A1 Bhardwaj, Namita
A1 Frazier, Winfred T.
A1 Collazo, Ashley
A1 Abara, N. Ogechi
A1 Campbell, Kendall M.
YR 2024
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/37/5/969.abstract
AB The minority tax has been defined as a set of disparities that those who are underrepresented in medicine face in addition to clinical care, education, and research responsibilities. These taxes include systemic racism, diversity efforts, clinical and promotion disparities, lack of faculty development, and isolation. Much has been added to the literature to better define and characterize the minority tax and propose suggestions for mitigations. This article builds on the existing literature that defines clinical efforts and diversity efforts disparities by exploring the intersections of these disparities through the experiences of family medicine faculty in the clinical environment. The authors, who are all academic family medicine physicians from minoritized communities, use their lived experiences to share how the diversity efforts disparity impacts patient care. Themes noted include health system wide challenges for patients whose preferred language is not English and the importance of racial and ethnic concordance between patients and the physician workforce.