To explore what it might mean to be a white psychiatrist working in a white culture.
Conclusions:
Inequalities and power imbalances are maintained by person-blaming and the invisibility of structural inequality. Opportunities to recognise the effects of being privileged and working within a medical culture that compounds such inequality may be squandered without curiosity and action.
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