MEDICAL SCHOOLS HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN WRONG ON RACE. A senior white physician stands by silently as a white patient uses a slur to describe a Black nurse. A middle-aged doctor asks a Black student why the lower-income Black patients in the clinic aren’t able to speak and act the way she does. Several young doctors make fun of “Black-sounding” names in a newborn unit and speculate when each infant will later enter the penal system.
