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- Why do we need to talk
about race in medicine?

- Why talk about race?

- That's a great question.

- It's really important
to talk about race.

- How can we not?

- Race and racism are critical
determinants of health.

- Racism directly
impacts the care

that our patients receive.

- Race is sort of the
fable of how we've created

who has and who doesn't have.

- Probably the biggest
reason that I see

is just all the
disparities in healthcare.

- The mission of medicine
is to provide medical care

for everyone, no matter what
the lottery of their birth is.

- If we're really about
health, then we have to pay

attention to the whole person.

- As a cis white woman, I
have to name how I show up

in the world in
relationship to my patients

who don't have the
same experience.

- We wouldn't do it if we
didn't do it by intention.

- We need everyone's
perspective to come together.

- This country was built on
the backs of enslaved people,

and we are still dealing
with all of the repercussions

and all of the trauma.

- Medicine actually hasn't
traditionally done a great job

of understanding people's
experience of race

in a really racialized society.

- It is important
to call it out.

- We need patients
to be able to feel

a connection with
their physicians.

- It's not just who someone is,

but it's how they're
treated by others

in their experience
in the world.

- There needs to
be a safe space.