Essay details inequities experienced by Black women physicians in the US
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 16, 2021
Black women physicians in the United States face hurdles and inequities that contribute toward their underrepresentation in medicine, argues an essay in The Lancet by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physician Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, and two colleagues. The essay, titled "Superhuman, But Never Enough: Black Women in Medicine," gives voice to "the frustrations I deal with and that I talk about with my Black women physician colleagues," says Stanford, an obesity medicine physician-scientist at MGH.
Black Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, but just 2.8 percent of physicians . . .
