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USask research says medicine needs to be more inclusive
University of Saskatchewan researcher says the solution can also be the problem.Manuela Valle-Castro is the director of the USask College of Medicine social accountability division, where she works to strip away the racist, sexist and classist beliefs ingrained in the medical field by the only people allowed to practice medicine for hundreds of years.“We have inherited the biases of the institutions, which are male and white biases and also some class biases,” she said, speaking to Global News over Zoom.