The Supreme Court's decision to strike down affirmative action, including in professional schools, like medical and nursing, will have detrimental consequences on Black health for generations to come. This is about life & death for us. Today, we are only 5% of physicians.

"But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life." - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson #thatpart

In qualitative interviews, Black patients with serious illness reported experiencing racism in clinical settings, often through epistemic injustice, that was associated with medical mistrust and poor patient-clinician communication. ja.ma/3NEH8o3