Read this great post from my colleague Brent Staples: The worst racial atrocities that took place in the Jim Crow South were carried out by the medical establishment, not by night riders cloaked in sheets. Indeed, many more African-Americans were killed by racist medical policies than by all the lynch mobs that ever existed. Until the late 1960s, the American Medical Association tacitly endorsed rules that denied membership to black physicians in the South, thus depressing their numbers in specialties such as surgery and ensuring that black patients would continue to receive dangerously substandard care — or no care at all. takingnote.blogs.nytimes/2014/10/13/medical-racism/
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 19:51:52 +0000