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Race and racism: are we too comfortable with comfort?

Dipesh P Gopal, Salman Waqar, Victoria Silverwood, Ebrahim Mulla and Olamide Dada
BJGP Open 2020; 4 (5): BJGPO.2020.0143. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2020.0143
Dipesh P Gopal
1Institute of Population Health Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK
BMBS, BSc (Hons), MRCGP, AFHEA
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Salman Waqar
2Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
MBBS, BSc, MRCGP, DRCOG, PGCert(MedEd)
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Victoria Silverwood
3School for Primary, Community and Social Care, Keele University, Keele, UK
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Ebrahim Mulla
4Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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Olamide Dada
5Cardiff University School of Medicine, UHW Main Building, Cardiff, UK
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vol. 4 no. 5 BJGPO.2020.0143
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https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2020.0143
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  • Received August 21, 2020
  • Accepted September 2, 2020
  • Published online December 15, 2020.

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  1. Dipesh P Gopal, BMBS, BSc (Hons), MRCGP, AFHEA1,*,
  2. Salman Waqar, MBBS, BSc, MRCGP, DRCOG, PGCert(MedEd)2,
  3. Victoria Silverwood, MBChB (Dist), PGCE(MedEd), PGDip(MedSci), MRCGP, MPhil3,
  4. Ebrahim Mulla, MBChB, BMedSci (Hons)4 and
  5. Olamide Dada5,6
  1. 1Institute of Population Health Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK
  2. 2Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  3. 3School for Primary, Community and Social Care, Keele University, Keele, UK
  4. 4Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  5. 5Cardiff University School of Medicine, UHW Main Building, Cardiff, UK
  6. 6Melanin Medics, London, UK
  1. ↵*For correspondence:
    Dipesh P Gopal, d.gopal{at}qmul.ac.uk
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