Angelina Jolie Shares Struggle With Daughter Zahara's Post-Surgery Care Because of Her Race
Angelina Jolie is opening up about how a major blind spot in the medical field has impacted her children. In a recent article for , the 46-year-old actress interviews Malone Mukwende, a medical student who's on a mission to teach other doctor hopefuls how conditions and diseases can be present in non-white patients.Mukwende, 21, started his project after learning that, Jolie writes, «almost all the images and data used in its teaching were based on studies of white patients,» which can lead to «misdiagnosis, suffering and even death.»In response to Mukwende's work, which has culminated with a handbook, , and an online platform called Hutano, Jolie says that she's seen the problem firsthand with her own kids.