By Martha Bebinger, June 19, 2020, WBUR
As calls for racial justice continue on Boston streets, conversations have shifted to what’s next. That’s true inside hospitals as well, where the life-long effects of racism play out every day.
“You could almost take any chronic disease in America, diabetes, hyper-tension, and there will be higher rates and worse outcomes in Black Americans,” says Dr. Rose Olson, a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “That’s not due to biology or genetics, honestly it's due to racism and lack of access to care.”
Olson is among a group of residents at the Brigham and hospitals across the city who say it’s time to turn the vast outpouring of support for change — seen in hospital staff taking a collective knee to remember George Floyd, or heard in statements from hospital leadership — and turn that into steps that will eliminate racism and health disparities.
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