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Episode: How systemic racism impacts health outcomes across a lifetime
Description: Physician coach Seema Pattni discusses her article, "Why racism in health care is still an emergency." Seema reflects on a painful encounter with an eight-year-old Black patient who wished to be white, illustrating the devastating impact of systemic racism. She outlines the profound racial disparities in health outcomes from birth to death, and highlights the lack of urgency within medical education and leadership to address these issues. Seema also calls out the exclusion of ethnic minorities from positions of power and the continued presence of toxic teaching methods in medical training. Her conversation offers both a reality check and...