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"As of late, the world has started to grapple with the fact that racism and inequities are entrenched in every system and structure that exists. Healthcare is no exception. There are innumerable studies that highlight the ways that bias permeates the healthcare field. Harriet Washington’s groundbreaking book Medical Apartheid looked at this in more detail, examining the ways that Black bodies have been medically harmed throughout the history of the United States. Not only are there racial disparities in perceptions of pain tolerance, but the Black maternal mortality rates are staggering. There is also evidence of educators being penalized for teaching students about racial disparities in medicine. In a recent example of potential medical malpractice, a nurse named Kelly Morris went viral on TikTok for a series of videos where she joked about “giving her patients too many pills, lying about vital signs, or acting as though she doesn’t care when a patient dies.”"
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