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The new vow acknowledges racism, covid-19 deaths and the killing of Breonna Taylor.
A University of Minnesota medical student defaced a George Floyd memorial with spray paint right near the spot where Floyd was killed by police, a gut punch to many medical students across the country.
It laid bare a long-simmering trust issue.
“How can Black people or other marginalized groups trust doctors when they hear this news?” said Tito Onyekweli, a first-year medical student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who, full disclosure, is my brother.
It brought to the forefront historic racist atrocities and current inequities in medical care, including the disproportionate number of covid-19 deaths in minority communities.
