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News|Videos|February 27, 2024

Diversity in medicine: Affecting patient longevity

Why the U.S. health care system needs diversity among physicians, and how patients will benefit.

Can physicians lengthen or shorten the life spans of patients through unconscious bias? Or through understanding about social determinants of health? Emergency medicine physician Sampson Davis, MD, discusses how physicians’ understanding of diversity can affect patient health long-term.