Here is an interesting article, and I did not have time to convert all 35 pages to *.jpg format.  I have shared the first page of the report and there is a hyperlink to upload and read all 35 pages.

AHLA – An Epidemic of Racism in Peer Review Killing Access to Black and Brown Physicians – An Epidemic of Racism in Peer Review- Killing Access to Black and Brown Physicians-Welch and Hoffer 5-2022

2/6/23, 6:18 PMAHLA – An Epidemic of Racism in Peer Review: Killing Access to Black and Brown Physicians

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https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/content-library/journal-health-la…4-c09f-4843-b0c9-07f106057b84/An-Epidemic-of-Racism-in-Peer-Review

ABSTRACT: Recently, the medical profession has experienced a signicant increase in
the number of adverse medical sta actions against physicians of color. Tis crisis is one of
epidemic proportions and impact, threatening the economic, physical, and mental well-
being of African American physicians and taking a corresponding toll on the health and
lives of Black patients, who are already negatively impacted by the systemic racism in the
health care system. Tis article will explore the history, context, and nature of medical
sta actions and corresponding legal challenges; health outcomes and the importance of
access to physicians of color; the perversion of the peer review process with underlying
themes of economic competition, preservation of power, racism, and unconscious bias;
and some suggested actions for tangible reform.
An Epidemic of Racism in Peer Review: Killing
Access to Black and Brown Physicians
 May 23, 2022
Sidney Welch, Akerman LLP | Tricia “CK” Hoffler, CK Hoffler Firm
May 2022 Volume 16 | Issue 1
Journal of Health and Life
Sciences Law
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Introduction
Medicine is not immune to the larger societal ills. Te past few years have shined a
spotlight on racial inequities, leading the American Public Health Association, American
Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Medical Association, among others, to
publicly declare that racism is a public health crisis and to suggest redress in a myriad of
dierent ways.
Mirroring this national crisis at a focused level, the health law bar and the media have
reported a signicant increase in the number of adverse medical sta actions against
physicians of color—raising a question among some physicians whether this increase is
attributable to an increase in medical sta actions motivated by racism or an increase in
the number of physicians of color coming forward to challenge some of these actions.
Nonetheless, it is a crisis of epidemic proportions and impact, threatening the economic,
physical, and mental well-being of African American physicians, ofen with devastating
impacts to the availability of care to many already underserved patients in this country.

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