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Why are there still so few Black doctors in the U.S.?

The percentage of Black doctors hasn’t changed in 40 years. New reporting finds Black residents get more harshly disciplined and thrown out of their programs at a much higher rate than their white counterparts.

Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee speaks with the president of Morehouse School of Medicine Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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