Maytal Gilboa, ‘Biased but Reasonable: Bias Under the Cover of Standard of Care’, 75 Georgia Law Review 489 (2023). Healthcare settings have long been sites where minoritized patients have needed to fight to receive adequate quality of care. The recent debates about physicians not wearing masks in hospitals and clinics to protect immunocompromised and vulnerable patients is only the latest example of systemic failures allowing such health-related injustices to appear. For decades, legal scholars have been discussing the promise and shortcomings of tort law as an avenue to bring about social change and promote equality … (more)
[Doron Dorfman, JOTWELL, 7 February 2025]
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