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Op-Ed: The Irony of DEI During the Fall of Black Doctors

email article Black people represent approximately 13% of the U.S. population and only 5% of medical doctors. This disparity has been linked to deficiencies in healthcare access, quality, research, and patient satisfaction among Black patients. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed persistent racial healthcare disparities in a number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. Despite the accumulation of data supporting the existence of these disparities, academic medical centers and healthcare organizations have consistently demonstrated a lack of commitment to improving racial diversity by recruiting, supporting, and retaining Black doctors. The recent fall of several committed and talented Black physician-educators has called into question how structural racism in the medical profession works forcibly against any practical effort to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) that might mitigate racial healthcare disparities. If the safety and success of Black doctors in the wo

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