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27. What Can Bin Laden Teach Us About Medicine?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Importance of Increasing Diversity Among Doctors

Only five percent of doctors are black. We don't have the work force to handle building up trusts, and we have to do better. When fatima a medical student, she noticed a black man in the back of many of the schools. He was a slave purchased with the sole role of robbing black gravesites for the medical students at the time to have bodies by which to study anatomy. Vattima wanted to recognize grandison at a ceremony first year medical students hold honoring the cadavers they'll study. She brought this idea to the other class officers.

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