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The Trojan Letter of Recommendation

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This chapter is about a talented Latina house staff who became unknowingly embroiled in a microaggression deceptively leveled against her by a duplicitous senior faculty member.

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  1. Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    Mikhail C. S. S. Higgins MD, MPH

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Correspondence to Mikhail C. S. S. Higgins MD, MPH .

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  1. Office for Diversity and Equity and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Marcus L. Martin

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Sheryl Heron

  3. Department of Medicine, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Lisa Moreno-Walton

  4. Office for Diversity and Equity, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Michelle Strickland

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Higgins, M.C.S.S. (2019). The Trojan Letter of Recommendation. In: Martin, M.L., Heron, S., Moreno-Walton, L., Strickland, M. (eds) Diversity and Inclusion in Quality Patient Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92762-6_48

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