Structural Racism — A 60-Year-Old Black Woman with Breast Cancer

In 2015, Ms. M. a 60-year-old, unemployed, uninsured black woman, presented to the emergency department at a Chicago community hospital with a breast lump. The emergency medicine physician suspected an infection and, without diagnostic testing or planned follow-up, discharged her with a…

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