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American Medical Association Releases Anti-Racist Plan For Itself And Medical Profession
The nation’s largest physicians organization is pledging to help create more equity in the healthcare field.
Published 13 hours ago
Written by Madison J. Gray
The American Medical Association has released a new plan to end institutionalized racism within the organization and within the U.S. medical field in general. The strategy, outlined in an 86-page document, points out health inequities that have been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic as well as police violence and other racial issues that have created inequities, in its mandate to improve medical care for marginalized people.
by Lindsey Tanner, The Associated Press
Posted May 13, 2021 12:27 pm ADT
Last Updated May 13, 2021 at 12:39 pm ADT
The inseparable sisters always stood out identical twins from Twinsburg Ohio, whip-smart students from the side of town with unpaved streets and no sidewalks, excluded from the gifted track because they were Black.
Their friends were white and a classmate’s comment still stings: “’I don’t even think of you as Black.’ I said, ‘’Thank you.’ And I felt pride,” Brittani James recalls, shuddering.
“I believed we were special. I believed other people in our neighborhood weren’t as good as us,’’ she said.
Twin MDs battle entrenched racism in the medical world
By Lindsey Tanner - AP Medical Writer
Dr. Brittani James, left, and her twin sister Dr. Brandi Jackson stand for a portrait in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Sunday, May 2, 2021. The identical twin doctors who have fought bigotry all their lives have a lofty new mission: dismantling racism in medicine. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
The inseparable sisters always stood out identical twins from Twinsburg Ohio, whip-smart students from the side of town with unpaved streets and no sidewalks, excluded from the gifted track because they were Black.
Their friends were white and a classmate’s comment still stings: “’I don’t even think of you as Black.’ I said, ‘’Thank you.’ And I felt pride,” Brittani James recalls, shuddering.