Black Clinicians on the Trauma of Systemic Injustices

Doctors' stories shed light on public health impacts in disadvantaged communities

Ed McDonald IV, MD, a black physician at the University of Chicago Medicine, understands the pain and frustration of his community in the wake of George Floyd's death.

He knows what it feels like "to almost have my life inappropriately taken by police officers," McDonald said in an interview with MedPage Today.

When he was 17 years old, he parked outside a bowling alley in a mostly white Chicago suburb, talking on his phone and waiting for friends, when he noticed two men in jean jackets creeping alongside his car with guns drawn.