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Medical Community Boycotts JAMA After Podcast Dismisses Structural Racism

Published April 8, 2021 at 11:25 AM CDT

The Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, is facing pressure from the medical community to implement changes after it released a problematic podcast on structural racism.

Usha Lee McFarling, a national science correspondent for STAT, explains why this is just the latest in a long history of issues at JAMA and other medical journals.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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