Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets 5th & K welcomes Dayna Bowen Matthew to present her new book "Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care."
Currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow, Matthew serves on the faculty of the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities. In her first book she draws on her academic expertise and on her experience with the Colorado Health Equity Project, a medical-legal partnership she co-founded that works to remove barriers to good health for low-income clients. Showing the huge toll taken by disparities entrenched in the health care system, Matthew argues passionately for law-based solutions—not just training programs in cultural sensitivity—and she issues a call to root out the implicit race bias that results in the loss of some 84,000 lives each year.
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