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a richer, more rewarding life.

Welcome to Inquiring Minds. I'm in Dravis Gontas. This is a podcast that explores the space

where science and society collide. We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover,

and why it matters. Before we get further into this episode, here at Inquiring Minds,

we want to express our solidarity with black lives, our anger at the injustices that have plagued black people in this country for centuries.

We want to acknowledge that we have not always been part of the solution and that times have been part of the problem and that we aim to do better.

The first step towards doing better is to talk about how

systemic racism has affected the lives of people of color. My guest this week is Robert Rosencrantz.

He's an MD PhD student at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. And since the beginning of

the Black Lives Matter movement several years ago, he has made it his mission to find out

about the effects of systemic racism in medicine. He recently produced a thread on Twitter

in which he called to action, people who are affiliated with schools of medicine, their

deans, their students, etc., to address the profound inequalities in the way that people

of color are treated by the medical system.

Robert Rosencrantz, welcome to inquiring minds.

Thank you so much for having me.

So I came across a Twitter feed, or I should say a thread that you had written that

really intrigued me. And that's one of the

reasons I wanted to invite you on the podcast, especially this week. You were essentially

calling people who are at all involved with schools of medicine to action in terms of trying to

address some of the systemic racism that has been around in the medical field.

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