The Future of Race-Based Clinical Algorithms
Medical associations, health systems, and policymakers must work together to identify and remove racist algorithms from clinical practice.
Racism
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State and local governments face twin crises: halting the spread of COVID-19 and grappling with the systemic racism of American policing.
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Improving the health of local communities involves rethinking the laws that govern how police interact with the people they serve.
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About 1.5 million Black men are missing from daily life because of health challenges, economic instability, and over-policing.
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In just three sentences, Justice Holmes delivers a message that has lasted through today: some lives matter more than others.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the tradeoffs at stake for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) seeking reliable health advice.
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Too often, policies and practices in schools that create and compound health inequities are narrated as falling outside health law and policy.
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Racism in health care, expressed through implicit and explicit biases, is the ultimate form of suffocation.
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Read more: Accomodating Racism in Hospitals Accomodating Racism in Hospitals
By Michele Goodwin The Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan is being sued for accommodating the request made by a parent that no African Americans tend to his newborn. The father, who allegedly sported a swastika tattoo, alerted a nurse that blacks were not to care for his baby. To comply with the father’s request,…