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Why are there still so few Black doctors in the U.S.?

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The percentage of Black doctors hasn't changed in 40 years. New reporting finds Black residents get more harshly disciplined and thrown out of their programs at a much higher rate than their white counterparts.

Here & Now's Celeste Headlee speaks with the president of Morehouse School of Medicine Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice.

This segment aired on June 23, 2022.

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