In How We Do Harm, Otis Brawley describes how the current US healthcare system combines famine and gluttony and, in the process, leads to harmful health outcomes and health disparities. In 400-600 words, share your thoughts and reflections on one patient case described in the book and how it represents a broader problem in the healthcare system. What are the root causes of the problem? What are potential solutions? What are some of the ethical challenges experienced by physicians and other healthcare providers?

In your reflection include consideration of how structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges for achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels (MPH Foundational Competency 6), identify the ways diversity influences public health education and training, policies, programs, services, and the health of the nearby community (GSU’s MPH Foundational Competency 23), and evaluate the impact of health care policies on public health and health equity