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Inside Boston Hospitals, A Reckoning With Racism (WBUR)

 

By Martha Bebinger, June 19, 2020, WBUR

As calls for racial justice continue on Boston streets, conversations have shifted to what’s next. That’s true inside hospitals as well, where the life-long effects of racism play out every day.

“You could almost take any chronic disease in America, diabetes, hyper-tension, and there will be higher rates and worse outcomes in Black Americans,” says Dr. Rose Olson, a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “That’s not due to biology or genetics, honestly it's due to racism and lack of access to care.”

Olson is among a group of residents at the Brigham and hospitals across the city who say it’s time to turn the vast outpouring of support for change — seen in hospital staff taking a collective knee to remember George Floyd, or heard in statements from hospital leadership — and turn that into steps that will eliminate racism and health disparities.

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