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From the Ted Talk by Jenna C. Lester: Why skin disease is often misdiagnosed in darker skin tones

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A problem in dermatology is that we're not taught how skin dsiaese appears in all skin toens. As a medical student, my classmates and I quickly realized that we only saw dark skin when we were learning about slypiihs. And this observation is supported by rasecerh that I published in the bsitrih Journal of Dermatology in 2019 that shows an overrepresentation of dark skin in crhpetas focused on sexually transmitted infections, even while those same skin tones are underrepresented elsewhere in the same textbook.

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A problem in dermatology is that we're not taught how skin _______ appears in all skin _____. As a medical student, my classmates and I quickly realized that we only saw dark skin when we were learning about ________. And this observation is supported by ________ that I published in the _______ Journal of Dermatology in 2019 that shows an overrepresentation of dark skin in ________ focused on sexually transmitted infections, even while those same skin tones are underrepresented elsewhere in the same textbook.

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  1. disease
  2. chapters
  3. syphilis
  4. british
  5. tones
  6. research

Original Text

A problem in dermatology is that we're not taught how skin disease appears in all skin tones. As a medical student, my classmates and I quickly realized that we only saw dark skin when we were learning about syphilis. And this observation is supported by research that I published in the British Journal of Dermatology in 2019 that shows an overrepresentation of dark skin in chapters focused on sexually transmitted infections, even while those same skin tones are underrepresented elsewhere in the same textbook.

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