Health Equity

#WhiteCoatsForBlackLives — Addressing Physicians’ Complicity in Criminalizing Communities

Abstract: Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — #WhiteCoatsForBlackLives — Addressing Physicians’ Complicity in Criminalizing Communities

Publication: NEJM

Date Published: November 5, 2020

Author(s): Jamila Perritt, M.D., M.P.H.

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