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Healthy Black Children More Likely to Succumb to Surgery Than White Peers: Report

African American children who seemed healthy prior to surgery have been more likely to die in the weeks following the procedures than their white peers, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of Pediatrics. Although it’s been long been known that Black patients are more likely to suffer poor outcomes after surgery than […]