Prescription for Healthcare – Linda Rae Murray MD, “Health Inequities, Racism, and Colonialism” December, 2024

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Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM.

This month we interview Dr Linda Rae Murray, legendary Chicago physician  for the medically underserved, and a voice for social justice and health as a basic human right. She talks about the roots of Racism in Colonialism and its global implications today. And hear her “Prescription for Healthcare”.

Linda Rae Murray MD

Dr. Murray recommends looking at WEB Dubois’ foundational book Black Reconstruction.

Watch her in the movie “I Call It Murder” as a young physician in 1980s Chicago leading the fight against ambulances “dumping” poor patients that led to the EMTALA Act.

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