Health Equity

‘As a Black, Gay Physician, I’ve Survived In America By Embracing My Anger’

Abstract: After matriculating into medical school in the fall of 2013, I was drowning. It seemed that who I was—a Black, gay man—could not exist within the medical system.

Publication: Newsweek

Date Published: June 15, 2021

Author(s): Dr. Chase Anderson

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