Abstract
Authors explore the infamous murder of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, and juxtaposition it to systemic racial practices in healthcare as documented by the Institute of Medicine Report: Unequal Treatment. The current COVID-19 pandemic is presented as a situation which has the potential to ignite unresolved discriminatory healthcare practices. Proposed are policies which could possibly mitigate this phenomenon.
Recommended Citation
Davis, PhD, FNP-c, FAAN, LSM-BC, S. P., & Davis, MD, G. (2020). The George Floyd of healthcare. Journal of Health Ethics, 16(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.18785/ojhe.1602.07Included in
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