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Abdul El-Sayed: “Detroit's health department [was] shut down, despite being…”

Featuring: Abdul El-Sayed, Podcast Host, America Dissected | National

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Published | Video Starts at 03:29

I became a doctor because I really did want to heal. And at some point you start to think a little bit about the problems that you want to solve. You're working as Detroit's health department [was] shut down, despite being the oldest health department in the entire state, 185 years old. You start looking at the decisions that get made and wonder who's making this decisions. And then Donald Trump got elected. (03:29–03:40)

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Asserts that Detroit's health department was shut down despite its historical significance.

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