Long before anyone asked the Make America Great Again crowd to pinpoint exactly when America was great if you were Black, I heard a White stand-up comedian joke about how he could pretty much go back to any time in history and be ok, and acknowledged a Black person would not be ok. Hell, we’re still not ok.

But when I think about medicine, no one could go back in time and expect to be better off. And not just from the discovery of antibiotics or anesthesia perspective—from all the perspectives!