Black Lives Matter leaders took the megaphone at a UC Davis medical education building in Sacramento Tuesday, miles from the downtown intersection where they’ve been protesting for weeks following the deadly police shooting of Stephon Clark.
They again demanded police accountability and changes to use of force protocols, this time addressing a group of young faces in green scrubs and white coats. The students laid on the ground in what they called a “white coat die-in” — an event organized by a national medical student organization called WhiteCoats4BlackLives.
Fourth-year UC Davis student Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo was one of several students to call for more bias training for physicians, a better pipeline for physicians of color and an end to racial inequities in health care
“We do not practice health care in a bubble,” she said. “We practice health care in an inherently racist system.”
[For more of this story, written by Sammy Caiola, go to http://www.capradio.org/articl...cism-in-health-care/]
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