Nicoletta Lanese is the health channel editor at Live Science and was previously a news editor and staff writer at the site. She holds a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz and degrees in neuroscience and dance from the University of Florida.
Racism pervades health care systems across the world, putting patients' health and lives at risk. In"Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Ill" , science journalist Layal Liverpool shows how people of all socioeconomic statuses experience racism in health care, as exemplified by the widely covered story of Serena Williams' complications after childbirth, for instance.
Live Science spoke with Liverpool about her new book and what she hopes readers will take away from it. By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.Layal Liverpool: I think initially, it was kind of the opposite. Maybe I felt like,"I don't want to be pigeonholed as this Black journalist who covers race," for example, even though I actually think these issues are so important.
I thought it was important to have that there, to kind of validate people's experiences. But at the same time, I really wanted people to feel the kind of human stories here. That was something that for me was really hopeful when I was writing the book. I had a feeling that, speaking to people working in medicine and research, that there was a strong motivation to kind of challenge these ideas and almost audit the assumptions that are embedded into medical practices and sometimes even guidelines.
So she questioned her teachers and that led to a series of events where eventually her medical school — that was UW Medicine in the University of Washington — they removed the use of race adjustment in their hospital. Then there were a few other hospitals across the U.S. who started to remove it, and then eventually, there was a consensus established against that in the U.S. by the National Kidney Foundation and the American Society for Nephrology.
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