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Black Medical Workers Reflect on the Front Lines of Covid and Racism

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.2727 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Many Black medical workers are now finding themselves on the front lines of two epidemics -- Covid 19 and systemic racism.  We’ll talk with a panel of African American medical professionals at different levels of their careers who are writing and  reflecting on their roles during this time. “My brown skin is protected by blue scrubs, by a hospital ID that says “Stanford,” and “MEDICAL STUDENT” in big blue letters,” writes Dasha Savage, “ The black gunshot wound patients I meet in the trauma bay don’t have that luxury.” We’ll talk with Savage and participants in Stanford's Writing Medicine program about race, the medical system and how they are processing the events of today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Michael Krasny.

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Coming up next on forum, many black medical workers are now finding themselves on the front lines of two

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epidemics, COVID-19 and systemic racism. We'll talk with a panel of African American medical

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professionals who are writing and reflecting on their roles during this time. Participant

1:39.3

Dasha Savage writes, My brown skin is protected by blue scrubs by a hospital ID that says Stanford and

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medical student in big blue letters. The black gunshot wound patients I meet in the trauma

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bait don't have that luxury. We'll talk with Savage and other participants in a Stanford program

1:55.7

called writing medicine about race, the medical system, and we'll find out how they are processing the events of today.

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That's next after this news.

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Welcome to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny. As the nation grapples with two massive epidemics,

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