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First Opinion David J. Skorton and Henri R. Ford

New competencies on diversity, equity, and inclusion for medical education across the continuum

Health Katherine Gilyard

Placebo response reveals unconscious bias among white patients toward female, Black physicians

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: Vertus Hardiman and the medical tragedies that must not be forgotten

First Opinion Kim Gallon

Digital back doors can lead down the path to health inequity

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: A ‘city on fire’: How Miami shaped a disputed diagnosis used to justify deaths in police custody

First Opinion Anna C. F. Lewis

Substituting genetic ancestry for race in research? Not so fast

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: ‘Birthing while Black’ is an American crisis. Communities demand justice

Health Allison DeAngelis

Incoming JAMA editor says the journal’s issues handling race are ‘not unique to JAMA’

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: Dismantling medical racism starts in the classroom

First Opinion Sadhana Jackson

The power of inclusion: Overturning the ‘white wall’ standard

First Opinion LaQuayia Goldring

The organ procurement system is failing people of color like me. It’s time for reform

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: How one 1910 report curtailed Black medical education for over a century

First Opinion David Introcaso

HHS’s failure to address the health harms of the climate crisis constitutes environmental and institutional racism

First Opinion Tom Sequist

Unexpectedly united: The parallel plights of two communities 2,000 miles apart wracked by the pandemic

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: Medicine lost the trust of many Black Americans. How can it be restored?

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde, Meg Tirrell and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: Medical racism, new Covid vaccines, & the resilience of Regeneron

Special Report Usha Lee McFarling

The nation hasn’t made much progress on health equity. These leaders forged ahead anyway

First Opinion Amanda Joy Calhoun

How Black hair racism affects mental health care

Health Elizabeth Preston

Negative descriptors are more likely to appear in health records of Black patients, study finds

Off the Charts Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

What racism in medicine takes from us

Health Nicholas St. Fleur

STAT Conversation: The Whitest Medical Specialty

A STAT Investigation Hyacinth Empinado and Usha Lee McFarling

Watch: A rebel with a cause: As a mentor and a leader, this Black orthopedic surgeon fights to diversify his field

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling

Orthopedic surgeons pride themselves on fixing things. Can they fix their own field’s lack of diversity?

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling

The whitest specialty: As medicine strives to close its diversity gaps, one field remains a stubborn outlier

First Opinion Glenda V. Roberts

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Hold science to higher standards on racism

‘It was stolen from me’: Black doctors are forced out of training programs at far higher rates than white residents

Never forget that early vaccines came from testing on enslaved people

Listen: ‘Racism is America’s oldest algorithm’: How bias creeps into health care AI

Gaslighting of Black medical trainees makes residency something to ‘survive’

20 years ago, a landmark report spotlighted systemic racism in medicine. Why has so little changed?

How medicine erased Black women from a ‘white man’s disease’

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New competencies on diversity, equity, and inclusion for medical education across the continuum

Placebo response reveals unconscious bias among white patients toward female, Black physicians

Listen: Vertus Hardiman and the medical tragedies that must not be forgotten

Digital back doors can lead down the path to health inequity

Listen: A ‘city on fire’: How Miami shaped a disputed diagnosis used to justify deaths in police custody

Substituting genetic ancestry for race in research? Not so fast

Listen: ‘Birthing while Black’ is an American crisis. Communities demand justice

Incoming JAMA editor says the journal’s issues handling race are ‘not unique to JAMA’

Listen: Dismantling medical racism starts in the classroom

The power of inclusion: Overturning the ‘white wall’ standard

The organ procurement system is failing people of color like me. It’s time for reform

Listen: How one 1910 report curtailed Black medical education for over a century

HHS’s failure to address the health harms of the climate crisis constitutes environmental and institutional racism

Unexpectedly united: The parallel plights of two communities 2,000 miles apart wracked by the pandemic

Listen: Medicine lost the trust of many Black Americans. How can it be restored?

Listen: Medical racism, new Covid vaccines, & the resilience of Regeneron

The nation hasn’t made much progress on health equity. These leaders forged ahead anyway

How Black hair racism affects mental health care

Negative descriptors are more likely to appear in health records of Black patients, study finds

What racism in medicine takes from us

STAT Conversation: The Whitest Medical Specialty

Watch: A rebel with a cause: As a mentor and a leader, this Black orthopedic surgeon fights to diversify his field

Orthopedic surgeons pride themselves on fixing things. Can they fix their own field’s lack of diversity?

The whitest specialty: As medicine strives to close its diversity gaps, one field remains a stubborn outlier

Understanding my racial heritage — thanks, Ancestry.com — could have gotten me a kidney transplant earlier

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