Primary Education Topic:
Multicultural Aging
Other Education Topics:
Health & Wellness
Leadership in Aging
For me, the only way to prevent racism from influencing my medical practice is to confront it head on.
By Joseph Sacco
The patient, an African American man in his late 50s, was critically ill and tethered to a ventilator. Bacteria grew from his blood, his kidneys had shut down and his liver had been rendered wooden and cirrhotic by decades of silent hepatitis C infection. His death, in hours or days, was inevitable.