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At the end of outpatient clinic, I asked my four medical students to share something new that they had learned that day. "I learned that I need to see my patients actually walk." "How to prioritize treatment of chest pain." "When to use metformin."

"I learned how to deal with a patient who told me he didn't like blacks," said the fourth student, an African-American woman in her third year of medical school.

"What happened in the encounter?" I asked.

"The patient told me right away that he and his wife didn't like blacks. I was taken aback. It was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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