About this episode
This episode introduces a new series that explores the impact of race on clinical medicine and the assumptions that persist within it.
What happens when medicine gets race wrong? In a new 8-week series, The Race Equation confronts harmful assumptions about race in clinical medicine, why they endure, and what it will take to change.
People in this episode
Host: NEJM Group
Topics covered
- race in medicine
- clinical assumptions
- health disparities
- medical ethics
- systemic racism
Keywords
- race
- medicine
- clinical
- health
- disparities
- assumptions
- change
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: The Race Equation
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