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Health care providers have a duty to care for patients regardless of their race, nationality, or ethnicity, but there are still lingering ways that the health care system can alienate Black people. The more providers can understand these dynamics, the less likely they are to perpetuate them in practice.
Jocelyn Cortez and Scarlet Reyes
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U of U Health recently received the LGBTQ Health Care Equality Top Performer designation from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation—but this achievement didn’t happen overnight. Plastic surgeon and Transgender Health Program Director Cori Agarwal, and Program Coordinator Ariel Malan, share the grit, determination and patient collaboration that transformed our health care system.

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Varsha Iyer is an inpatient child and adolescent psychiatrist at Utah’s University Neuropsychiatric Institute. Here she shares both individual and institutional advice on dealing with the chronic stress of racism and the acute stress of COVID-19 to lead the way for positive, enduring change.

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