Health Equity

Dermatology faces a reckoning: Lack of darker skin in textbooks and journals harms care for patients of color

Abstract: In dermatology, where images are critical for diagnoses, the lack of images of darker skin poses a roadblock to proper treatment and medical education.

Publication: STAT

Date Published: July 21, 2020

Author(s): Usha Le McFarling

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