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Police Brutality and Mistrust in Medical Institutions.

Sirry M AlangDonna D McAlpineRachel Hardeman
Published in: Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities (2020)
Conditions outside the medical system such as experiencing police brutality impact relationships with the medical system. Given that clinicians are in a unique position of having access to firsthand information about the struggles and injustices that shape their patients' health, advocating for systemic change on behalf of their patients might build trust.
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