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How race plays a role in medicine and infant mortality

There is a difference in infant mortality rates for babies born to white and Black mothers in the United States that urgently needs to be addressed systematically. Ebony Jade Hilton, MD, and Jen Caudle, DO, discuss the issue and their own fear.


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