Wispelwey and Morse were among a group of doctors at the Brigham in 2015 who questioned why data showed Black and Latinx patients with heart failure were more likely than white patients to end up in general medicine rather than the cardiology unit, where patients have better outcomes. we want to actually make sure our patients are taken care of in the best way possible right now.” “We can't wait until these predominantly white institutions sort of come around.
“And so we wanted to take a race-explicit approach,” Wispelwey told GBH News.
Wispelwey said his team found it was hard to address institutional racism in medicine - such as disparities in how patients are admitted for heart surgery - using “racially blind” methods. “And I think ultimately in the COVID era, part of what that means is a real serious push to make inequities more visible.” “What I'm trying to do is hold the medical industrial complex accountable for the harms that it's caused to communities of color and to other communities and push for racial justice and health equity in all of the institutions that I'm involved in and in partnership with the many communities that I serve,” Morse told GBH News.
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