Health Equity

Medical Schools Have Historically Been Wrong on Race

Abstract: While the blatant horrors of the past are gone, the ideas that fueled race-based medicine stubbornly linger. We can change.

Publication: The New York Times

Date Published: July 27, 2020

Author(s): Damon Tweedy

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