Health Warrior: Med Student Tears Down Racial Barriers

YR Media
Written By CA Youth Media Network

Medical student Bernadette Lim is fighting to tear down racial barriers in medicine. The 26-year-old founded the Freedom Community Clinic to provide “whole-person” care to BIPOC communities, combining Western medicine with healing practices. “Medicine only treats symptoms...We are inherently taught how to treat disease rather than uplift health.” Lim recently won a California Youth Award. Read more at YR Media.

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