Asian Americans and Racial Justice in Medicine

Health care is the new battlefront for anti-DEI attacks

“…Black, Latinx, and Indigenous physicians currently account for 5.0%, 5.8%, and 0.3% of physicians [ 5 ], respectively, despite accounting for 13.6%, 19.1%, and 1.3% of the general population [ 6 ]. Asian American doctors remain underrepresented in leadership positions within medicine [ 7 ]. In fact, the numbers of Indigenous people and Black men enrolling in medical school has declined over the past 40 years; the latter of which has been referred to as “an American crisis”.…”