In today’s society race and gender characterizes a human being. Human beings in today’s society look at every aspect to someone who is not of one’s culture. Race and ethnicity have been the center piece for the importance of cultural barriers in communication. The journal of American Medical Association takes in to affect the patient-physician relationship such as race, gender, and partnership. The American Medical Association starts their article by saying, “Many studies have documented race and gender differences in health care received by patients. However, few studies have related differences in the quality of interpersonal care to patient and physician race and gender.” The difference are shown by race in the article at a particular point were The American Medical Association talks about African American patients. The American Medical Association says, “African American patients rated their visits as significantly less participatory than whites in models adjusting for patient age, gender, education, marital status, health status, and length of the patient-physician relationship” participation is a big part of being a patient because if you are not participating how is the physician going to help that patient? The American Medical Association also declares, “Studies have shown that African Americans and other minority patients often receive differential and less optimal technical health care than white Americans” The quality of interpersonal care is important to patients because relationships itself is important no matter what it is. The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. Racism still wonders around the world today. Everyone should have equal benefits. It shouldn’t be that if you are of different color such as black that you get the same treatment as whites. It’s really sad to hear these stories. People should now understand that racism is behind us and that the quality of your relationships determines our future. The American Medical Association says, “A few recent studies have shown that female physicians exhibit more empathy and engage in more positive talk, partnership-building, question-asking, and information-giving compared with their male counterparts.” As far as gender go females have the better position when it comes to certain jobs such as a physician. In conclusion relationships are a big part of the medical field. Physician-patient relationships are very important. No matter what the color of a person could be. The American Medical Association informs us that African American still do not get treated the same way as whites do in certain cases. PDM stands for participatory decision-making The American Medical Association leaves us with this question, “What is the association between race and gender concordance or discordance in the patient-physician relationship and PDM style?” remember the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.
