Full access APA & Meetings When Yolanda Lawson, M.D., was a medical student completing her internal medicine rotation, she had an experience that would help shape her career. She stood in a group with her fellow students, surrounding an older, Black patient, while the attending physician described the patient’s management plan for the day. As the team finished up and began to move on, the patient turned to Lawson, who was the only other Black person in the group.