Black Medical Workers Reflect on the Front Lines of Covid and Racism
b"Many Black medical workers are now finding themselves on the front lines of two epidemics -- Covid 19 and systemic racism.\\xa0 We\\u2019ll talk with a panel of African American medical professionals at different levels of their careers who are writing and\\xa0 reflecting on their roles during this time. \\u201cMy brown skin is protected by blue scrubs, by a hospital ID that says \\u201cStanford,\\u201d and \\u201cMEDICAL STUDENT\\u201d in big blue letters,\\u201d writes Dasha Savage, \\u201c The black gunshot wound patients I meet in the trauma bay don\\u2019t have that luxury.\\u201d We\\u2019ll talk with Savage and participants in Stanford's Writing Medicine program about race, the medical system and how they are processing the events of today."