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Dr. Sabrina Assoumou, an infectious disease physician at Boston Medical Center; Dr. Sharlay Butler, an obstetrician gynecologist at Brigham and Women's...

Boston doctors are overall pleased with where the COVID-19 vaccination rates are trending in Massachusetts as it relates to race, but say there is still more...

Black Doctors Say Plan To Tackle Racism In Medicine Falls Short In this Oct. 30, 2012 file photo, a doctor wears a stethoscope around his neck as he tends to patients in his office in Illinois. On May 11, 2021, the American Medical Association released a comprehensive plan aimed at dismantling structural racism inside its own ranks and within the U.S. medical establishment. Jeff Roberson/AP A plan by the nation’s largest doctors’ group to dismantle racism in the U.S. medical establishment does not go far enough, two local experts told GBH News. The American Medical Association said ...

People wait in line for COVID-19 testing at the Lynn Community Health Center on Monday. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) It’s 2 a.m. on a Saturday in November. A 3 year old cries out in his sleep. His curls are matted to his forehead with sweat. A thermometer beeps: 103.9. Erin Sanders curls up next to her son. As a nurse practitioner, Sanders knows a high fever is concerning. In the wee hours of this fall morning, those worries are compounded. Fourteen days earlier, someone in his child care had tested positive for the coronavirus. “You could literally be exposed anywhere," Sanders said. "Even if you...