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    1 year ago

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    She plans to spend her career caring for the body’s largest organ, where differences in melanin give humans the skin colors underpinning the construct of race.

    But more than two months after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, concerns have arisen that a path into medicine may become much harder for students of color.

    The disparities stretch from birth to death, often beginning before Black babies take their first breath, a recent Associated Press series showed.

    Over and over, patients said their concerns were brushed aside or ignored, in part because of unchecked bias and racism within the medical system and a lack of representative care.

    With affirmative action off the table at predominantly white institutions, historically Black colleges and universities may see an increase in applications, said Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, president and CEO of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.

    The college, which typically has 115 openings for new medical students, receives between 7,000 and 9,000 applications per year, a number Rice said she believes will increase in light of the Supreme Court ruling.


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