“But this is what physicians need to know about their own history: Not only can physicians be racist, physicians were often the very architects of racial science and scientific racism.” Our own Graham Mooney, Ayah Nuriddin, and Alexandre White, along with historians of medicine Jacqueline Antonovich, Rana Hogarth, Elise Mitchell, Lauren MacIvor Thompson, Kylie Smith, and Christopher Willoughby, respond to JAMA’s Clinical Reviews podcast on BMJ’s Medical Humanities blog. Read their excellent response, “Apologies Alone Won’t Solve Structural Racism: We Need a Reckoning with the Racist Roots of U.S. Medicine,” here:

https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/03/05/apologies-alone-wont-solve-structural-racism-we-need-a-reckoning-with-the-racist-roots-of-u-s-medicine/