Patient Representation in Medical Literature: Are We Appropriately Depicting Diversity?

Racial disparities exist in the accessibility, delivery, and quality of healthcare. Clinical images are central to plastic surgery, but choice of images in the literature is susceptible to implicit biases. The objective of this study was to determine if published images reflect the racial demographic of patients.A search for color photographs and rendered graphics depicting human skin was completed in 6 plastic surgery journals and the New...