Racism in medicine is real, just as much as sexism. The divergence in outcomes can be found along many metrics for many conditions.

But the black and brown providers are not perfect either. The divergence in lived experience between a young, black, academically talented provider and an elderly black poorly educated patient is huge, and simply being black doesn't bridge it. This is not something for the black and brown medical students to teach the white medical students. This is something they have to learn together. They have to learn how to listen to their patients better and earn their patients trust.

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