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A medical mythbuster's mission to improve health care | Joel Bervell

TED Talks Daily (HD video)

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4.1828 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ ? minutes

Summary

Joel Bervell was one of the only Black students in his medical school program. After noticing how misconceptions about race were embedded in health care, he turned to social media to raise awareness about the harmful impact of biases in medicine. He unpacks the long history of race-based health care disparities — and shows what the medical field can do to better serve all patients.

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