The more strongly physicians and medical researchers believe that racism negatively affects health, the more likely they are to intervene when they observe a racist encounter or policy, according to a new study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Based on anonymous survey responses from 948 trainee and faculty members of the Department of Medicine (DOM) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the researchers found that attitudes about racism predicted an individual’s willingness to act against observed racial incidents, whether overt or covert, or call attention to policies or procedures that reinforce racism.