The 80-year-old former U.S. Surgeon General recalled her father once loading up her then 4-year-old brother onto the mule's back when the child was sick and hauling out for medical care -- only to wait all day in the doctors' office because black patients weren't seen until the physician had taken care of all the white patients.
"That is not happening now -- I hope," Elders said. "We've come a long way, but that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go."
Elders was the keynote speaker at the Connecticut Health Foundation's Health Equity Media Event, which took place Wednesday afternoon at the Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation in Hartford. Journalists and representatives of nonprofits throughout the state attended the event, which focused on shedding light on health care disparities in Connecticut.
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