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The Disease Of Racial Inequality In Medicine

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Medicine is a science... a body is a body, and approaches to treatment are supposed to be roughly the same from patient to patient.  But bias creeps into medicine, as in many other fields. 

, a lawyer who works in a medical school, tracks the thousands of people of color who get sub-standard medical care in America in her book . 

And she visits Ashland for a speech on the subject tonight (November 6).  We welcome Dayna Bowen Matthew to the studio.  

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the ÀÏ·ò×Ó´«Ã½ Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.
April Ehrlich reports on lands and environmental policy for Oregon Public Broadcasting, a JPR news partner. Her reporting comes to JPR through the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.