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Cultural bias can create unhealthy barriers

About 10 years ago, Gloria Johnson-Powell’s nephew landed in an emergency room in Boston after fainting on the middle school football field at his first practice

Four days and five doctor visits later, he was dead.

The 13-year-old died of drug toxicity from seizure medication, which he didn’t need, that tends to cause problems in black males. But the University of Wisconsin-Madison physician says the real problem was cultural incompetence.