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A University medical student and radiologist want to educate the medical community on these hairstyles to improve care given to Black patients. Angela Udongwo, third-year medical student, and radiologist Hillel Maresky are on a mission to improve how physicians interpret the radiological scans of Black patients with braids, twists, and locs.
Links:
Doctors misidentified Black hairstyles as illness, growths on scans (inquirer.com)
2021 survey conducted by the American Medical Association:
Active Physicians by Sex and Specialty, 2021 | AAMC
The CROWN Act Law:
https://www.latest-hairstyles.com/black/twist-braids.html
https://www.hadviser.com/types-of-braids/
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/beauty-hair/hair/g12041031/braids-twists-hair/
https://www.hadviser.com/bantu-knots/
https://www.hadviser.com/twist-hairstyles/
https://www.hadviser.com/types-of-braids/
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