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In fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, Black doctors have been called on to champion the vaccine and to help eliminate pockets of medical mistrust in the Black community.
Faith Dawson
Let s consider for a minute physicians, patients and race. Evidence suggests that when doctors and patients share the same race or ethnicity, it improves time spent together, medication adherence and other factors. It can also dramatically affect outcomes of birth to Black mothers. Now, you two are at the beginning of your medical training, how has being a Black medical student influenced your understanding of the needs of the community?
Sydney Labat
I think that s that s probably a multifaceted question. From the standpoint of being a student and being in the hospital and interacting directly with patients, you can definitely see the change in a patient’s attitude, the change in the way a patient feels when the provider team walks in the room, they see someone who looks like them. Particularly I can talk about one experience in which I was on one of my rotations and I had a patient who ended up trusting me very much and, and when I had a day off, my resident, or my