Microaggressions Cause Teen’s Tumor on NBC's New Amsterdam

Julia Seymour | February 19, 2020
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NBC’s medical drama New Amsterdam had an unusual diagnosis this week in the episode, “Sabbath.”

After Dr. Helen Sharpe finds her 13-year-old patient Cephas has four benign tumors growing in his stomach and that the boy has elevated levels of stress hormones, psychiatrist Dr. Iggy Frome determines the tumors were caused by racism.

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