'white supremacy remains pervasive throughout medical education and medicine.' This OpEd explores the persistence of medical racism and importance of anti-racism in medicine.
that found Black and Latinx patients were less likely to be admitted to more specialized cardiology services for heart failure treatment, compared to their white counterparts. Since the publication of this study, they’ve worked with hospital administrators and clinical staff to identify systemic and interpersonal failures that contributed to the inequities they observed.
Dr. Morse is now the chief medical officer for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and continues to teach at Harvard Medical School. On the importance of antiracism in medicine, Dr. Morse, told, “We should be concretizing and institutionalizing the policies we know are going to make racial justice and health equity more possible over the coming years… I think we have to keep demanding what we know is going to be the difference.”patients.
“What happened with our work is the right-wing world got a hold of it, shared it, and is trying to distract us from pushing forward with race conscious work as a solution for health inequities,” Dr. Morse said. “People need to be clear in what the path forward is. We need to demand it, we need our allies to demand it. But we have to be prepared for the backlash.”
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