Health Care Is Racist. Here’s What Needs to Change

As scholar Harriet Washington explains, it’s time to consider financial penalties for doctors who discriminate

Sarah Begley
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8 min readJul 7, 2020

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Coronavirus patients lying on hospital beds outside.
Photo illustration. Source: John Moore/Getty Images

As the data continues to show, Covid is wreaking disproportionately more havoc on Black, Latinx, and Native American communities in the U.S. A range of factors conspire to make this so — factors…

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Sarah Begley
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Director at Medium working with authors and books. Formerly a staff writer and editor at Time.