Revay Stewart and Ruffin Tchakounte met inside the Methodist emergency room. Tchakounte was in rotation as a fourth-year Des Moines University student. “My class, we have three Black students out of 220, including myself,” Tchakounte said. “And so I’m always delighted to see other people, Black people specifically, in medicine.”Stewart was working as a scribe, not in medical school yet. Undergraduate degree debt was holding him back. “I owed well over $10,000 and so I’ve been working these long