Unpacking Layers of Stress Among BIPOC Health Providers

Published on August 4, 2022

Work. Family. Financial hardships. Remote learning. Fatal shootings. Hate crimes. Social justice protests. COVID-19. Grief. Personal and community trauma. Layers of stress.

Health care providers who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color, or BIPOC, often carry layers of stress on any regular day. Yet, they have shouldered several more layers over the past year from battling a pandemic while supporting the physical, emotional and mental health of their family, friends, patients, communities and somehow, themselves.

Together, the layers are forming a pressure cooker, observes Dr. Anissa Mattison, the assistant dean at the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Detroit Medical Center campus.

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