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Linda Villarosa

Journalist and writer Linda Villarosa speaks about medical bias and addresses the issues with conflating race and class. She talks about life expectancy statistics and medical education and highlights the need for critical thinking. Linda also emphasizes the importance of proximity and community in order to navigate disparities in the healthcare system.

Linda Villarosa

25m 48s

Journalist and writer Linda Villarosa speaks about medical bias and addresses the issues with conflating race and class. She talks about life expectancy statistics and medical education and highlights the need for critical thinking. Linda also emphasizes the importance of proximity and community in order to navigate disparities in the healthcare system.

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    S6 E6 - 1m 6s

    Linda Villarosa explains how poor treatment of Black Americans in health care leads to medical hesitancy. Usually not displayed in such explicit terms as other contexts, this kind of racism is in many ways ingrained in American medicine and has led to so many Black people being reluctant of medical treatment.

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