Doctors used to believe that Black people couldn’t get diabetes because it was a disease of the “civilized” and wealthy. Decades of mistreating and misdiagnosing diabetes among Black Americans continues to impact this community today, as Black patients are nearly 20% less likely to get access to new diabetes drugs like GLP-1s. So what can be done to make access to lifesaving medicine more equitable?
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