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Tell Me More: Fixing Institutional Racism in Health Care

Physician and author John Rich talks in a Tufts podcast about how the health-care system needs to realign how it thinks about victims of trauma
“Across the country, hospitals are beginning to think about ‘What is our responsibility to treat the trauma that young people are experiencing as a way to also treat the trauma that is rampant within communities?’” said John Rich. Photo: Alonso Nichols

Tell Me More is a Tufts University podcast featuring brief conversations with the thinkers, artists, makers, and shapers of our world. Listen and learn something new every episode. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Spotify, Stitcher, and SoundCloud.

In this episode of Tufts’ podcast Tell Me More, professor and author John Rich talks about applying a systems approach to tackling the consequences of trauma in the lives of young African-American men. Rich is the author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men. Now a professor at the Drexel University School of Public Health, Rich previously served as medical director of the Boston Public Health Commission, and as a primary-care physician at Boston Medical Center.

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