<span itemprop="author">Seema Pattni, MD

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Why racism in health care is still an emergency

“I want to be white,” he said. I didn’t know how to respond. I was quiet. He was serious, waiting for my reply. He was only 8 years old, in the hospital with an asthma flare-up. I had asked him, “What do you want to be when you …