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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated January 23, 2024
Get ready to be thrust into the book, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism in Medicine.
Blackstock’s story is even more incredible, when you look at the statistics. There are not enough Black women doctors. Less than 3% of physicians are Black women, and when it comes to academia, the numbers are even worse. “[O]nly 0.8% of full professors at US medical schools
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