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Medical schools need to get better at addressing structural racism

from Scientific American

Medical schools need to get better at addressing structural racism Scientific American Against the persisting backdrop of COVID-19, the killing of George Floyd and subsequent protests against police brutality, definitions of "healthcare" have become muddled in crisis and chaos. Coronavirus and state-sanctioned violence have collapsed the role of "physician" to move beyond medicine and include public health, public safety and politics. Lines between medicine and politics have blurred in the past, often in academic medicine and in medical schools, like the American College of Physicians' paper against gun violence, or the #ThisIsMyLane hashtag, and medical students' "die-ins" in the 2014 Black Lives Matter demonstrations. READ MORE

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