How biases in healthcare can be deadly
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Safia Hattab |
TEDxHopeCollege
• April 2021
When considering that most Americans visit a doctor at least once a year, it is imperative to pull back the curtain on some of the biases that exist in healthcare. In this talk, Safia Hattab, an African-American, disabled woman, unpacks just how prevalent these biases are in the medical field, and how they can uphold healthcare disparities, becoming a symptom to a larger problem.