In this episode we discuss affirmative action and how its overturning has negatively impacted healthcare. And we highlight Dr. Uché Blackstock and her memoir Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine*.
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Sources
Medical schools will be even less diverse after affirmative action ruling, experts say | NBC News
Health care is the new battlefront for anti-DEI attacks | PubMed Central
Crosby, F. J. (2006). Understanding Affirmative Action. Annual Reviews, Vol. 57:585-611
