New documentary at Twin Cities film festival examines implicit bias in medicine
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A new documentary making its Midwestern debut at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival tackles racism within hospital spaces.
“The Chaplain & the Doctor” is the latest documentary by Dr. Jessica Zitter, a California-based physician and filmmaker. She said this film came about after her hospital’s chaplain confronted Zitter about her biases as a doctor.
“It made me just really take note of how much we attribute personality types and all sorts of things to somebody based on a few superficial things,” Zitter said.
The film will premiere at the Main Cinema in Minneapolis at 4 p.m. on Friday and again at the Edina Mann at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.
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