AOFAS On the Same Page: Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
by Dayna Bowen Matthew

Wednesday, March 9, 2022
8:00 - 9:30 pm CST

Hosted by the AOFAS Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, the AOFAS On the Same Page discussions will address books and journal articles on healthcare inequities along with diversity and inclusion issues for the profession. Programming will include small group breakout discussions and guest speakers where appropriate.

In this broadcast, we will discuss the following book:

Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care 

By Dayna Bowen Matthew

Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system―and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients.

In this book, Dayna Bowen Matthew unites medical, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology research on implicit bias and health disparities with her own expertise in civil rights and constitutional law. In a time when the health of the entire nation is at risk, it is essential to confront the issues keeping the health care system from providing equal treatment to all.