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We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out. We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

Hello, everybody and welcome to Sawbones, a medical tour of Miss Guy, the medicine I'm your co-host Justin McElroy.

And I'm Sydney McElroy.

A few weeks back, in light of the recent protests and upheaval, we talked a little bit about racism in medicine, sort of from a patient perspective.

And this week we're going to kind of look at it from the other way. If I understand correctly, in sort of how we select and honor doctors and how those doctors advance in the system, is that fair?

This is a very personal one for me. I think that part of the work that myself and other white people need to be doing right now is, of course, as we've already said, educating ourselves and acting in ways that are not just not racist, but anti-racist.

And we're all trying to do that and do better and challenge our own implicit biases. And part of that is realizing that maybe your in systems, almost certainly your in systems, if you're a white person, that continue to like privilege white people over everybody else.

And perhaps you have been party to that and not realized it. And we got an email from a listener. Thank you, Charlotte, for calling it to my attention.

And good luck in medical school. And it, or actually you're probably done now. Either way, good luck or congratulations.

But she called my attention an organization called AOA or alpha omega alpha.

You hadn't heard of it before.

No, I am in it.

Oh, no.

So alpha omega alpha or AOA, which also I should clarify, if you start looking into this, AOA is also the abbreviation for the American osteopathic association, which are osteopathic physicians, D.O.s, which is totally separate from what we're talking about.

That has nothing to do with this.

And the,

I just want to make that clear.

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