Dr. Dean Schillinger Speaks to the Gaurdian About a "Mega-Disparity" in Healthcare Deliverance

Dr. Dean Schillinger, ARC co-founder, Andrew B Bindman Professor in Primary Care and Health Policy, Directs the UCSF Health Communications Research Program, and co-director for an NIDDK Center for Diabetes Translational Research (DREAMS-CDTR), spoke with Neil Barsky, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and investment manager, and founder of the Marshall Project. In speaking of a "mega-disparity" in healthcare deliverance, Dr. Schillinger explains how amputations are "perhaps the most stark disparity in black versus white health in America.” Black Americans with diabetes are four times more likely to suffer amputations than white Americans.  

Read the entire article here: More than 100,000 Americans with diabetes have limbs amputated each year. This is a crisis.