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A physician shaped by Chicago’s South Side looks through the fractures of American healthcare to ask: what does it mean to truly heal?

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Brittani James, MD is an Integrative Family Medicine physician, writer, and healthcare leader reimagining medicine as a force for healing and justice—blending science, story, and soul to help people and systems truly heal.