Global health education produces healers
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“I want this to be a safe place,” she told us. She quietly corrected misconceptions, and skillfully probed our assumptions. We talked about privilege. We talked about stereotyping patients in medicine under the pretense of facilitating a diagnosis. We talked about history. We talked about people who had died prematurely as a result of racism. We waded into waters that we would never have collectively explored without this level of guidance and safety.
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