UNESCO Chair in Bioethics

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  • Bioethics and Law Observatory
  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
  • University of Barcelona
  • Faculty of Law
  • Ave. Diagonal, 684
  • 08034 Barcelona
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • obd.ub@ub.edu
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  • Master in Bioethics and Law
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • master.bd@ub.edu

 

"The Pathophysiology of Racial Disparities"

The New England Journal of Medicine

“What do you think of when you hear the word ‘doctor’?”  I  asked.  I  was  speaking  in  a  Zoom  career panel for Black high schoolers. Responses materialized in the chat. Hero. Medicine. Care-taker. Death. I did a double take. “Tell me more about that?”“Well,” the student typed, her face shrouded in a hoodie. “I think about the family members I’ve lost to the medical system, a system that failed to treat them with dignity or respect.”