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Thousands of local medical professionals gathered at Franklin Field to denounce systemic racism in health care by kneeling for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the time it took for a Minneapolis police officer to kill George Floyd. “Today we are going to be uncomfortable. Our knees are going to be uncomfortable,” said Florencia Greer Polite of the Perelman School of Medicine. “But we’ve been comfortable for too long.”

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