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Georgia and six other states offer tax incentives to create mentorship opportunities for medical students and forge career pipelines in underserved communities.
Black people make up 13% of the U.S. population, but Black doctors are not equally represented.
Courtesy Wilson Hayes(NEW YORK) -- Weeks of shoulder pain landed a reluctant Whitney Nichols in urgent care. As a previously healthy 24-year-old Black woman, she pleaded for additional testing to uncover the cause of her pain. As a last resort, the doctor ordered a CT scan of her chest. The result, blood clots in both of her lungs. Even after this seemingly scary diagnosis and after being transferred to a hospital, Nichols said she felt dismissed when a doctor told her she would be fine. Nichols, now 29 and a graduating medical student, reflected that these interactions with dismissive doctor...
Courtesy Wilson Hayes(NEW YORK) -- Weeks of shoulder pain landed a reluctant Whitney Nichols in urgent care. As a previously healthy 24-year-old Black woman, she pleaded for additional testing to uncover the cause of her pain. As a last resort, the doctor ordered a CT scan of her chest. The result, blood clots in both of her lungs. Even after this seemingly scary diagnosis and after being transferred to a hospital, Nichols said she felt dismissed when a doctor told her she would be fine. Nichols, now 29 and a graduating medical student, reflected that these interactions with dismissive doctor...
Courtesy Wilson Hayes(NEW YORK) -- Weeks of shoulder pain landed a reluctant Whitney Nichols in urgent care. As a previously healthy 24-year-old Black woman, she pleaded for additional testing to uncover the cause of her pain. As a last resort, the doctor ordered a CT scan of her chest. The result, blood clots in both of her lungs. Even after this seemingly scary diagnosis and after being transferred to a hospital, Nichols said she felt dismissed when a doctor told her she would be fine. Nichols, now 29 and a graduating medical student, reflected that these interactions with dismissive doctor...