Are Black Children Receiving Worse Medical Care?

Dr. Payal Aggarwal
4 min readFeb 7, 2022

Happy Black History Month, now let’s talk about healthcare disparities.

Working as a resident in Brooklyn, I was usually taking care of African American children in our emergency room. Caucasian children presented infrequently and when they did, they came in on UPPA baby strollers and part of a population responsible for Brooklyn’s gentrification.

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Dr. Payal Aggarwal

Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist | Daughter, Wife and Mother | Global Citizen