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When encouraging your child's medical career means accepting they will face racism

My daughter is applying to medical school and she is brilliant and qualified, but I keep worrying that she will face the same racism I did as a nurse thirty years ago, and I do not know if I should encourage her or try to protect her from that pain.

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The person struggles with the tension between supporting their child's dreams and protecting them from institutional trauma they know awaits.

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