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Racism and the Off-Duty Doctor How my hospital ID has become an “I exist” card.

FSI | CHP/PCOR - More racial diversity among physicians would lead to better health among black men, research shows African-American doctors could help reduce cardiovascular mortality among black men by 19 percent — if there was more racial diversity among physicians, according to a new study led by Stanford Health Policy’s Marcella Alsan.

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2013/08/racism_and_high_blood_pressure.html

Racism and high blood pressure link suggested in research in black patients The study, based on surveys taken in urban health clinics in Baltimore, suggest that black patients are more likely to think about race than whites, and patients who think about race are more likely to have high blood pressure.

The massive new study on race and economic mobility in America, explained Even black men born to wealthy families are less economically successful than white men.

Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys A study of 20 million children shows the fragility of the American Dream.

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Black Cancer Matters A documentary shines a spotlight on the grim relationship between race and cancer.

When Doctors Are the Target: Prejudice in Medicine In a WebMD/Medscape survey produced with STAT, physicians told us how often they hear biased comments from patients and patients told us what characteristics they look for in a healthcare provider.

How racism makes us sick Sociologist David R. Williams challenges us to tackle the striking levels of early death and poor health that are due to the color of one’s skin. David is the Norman Professor of Public Health at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of African and African Am...

FINAL LETTER IN RESPONSE TO STANFORD Dear Stanford Law & Stanford Medical School, We are UCSF’s White Coats 4 Black Lives - a national organization founded at our university in 2014 as a response to the growing number of state-sanctioned murders of black people by the police. We traveled to Stanford to attend your symposium -- Ra...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/26/health/doctors-discrimination-racism/

Racism in medicine: An 'open secret' After a family member in her hospital said "I don't want a Jewish doctor," one pediatrician set out to study discrimination against physicians. Here's what she found.

https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/20/work-doctor-activist/

Balancing my work as a doctor and my activism is getting tough I have a big exam coming up next week, but with the inauguration of a president who has said racist and sexist things, I'm finding myself distracted.

Dr. Mary Bassett: We Must 'Name Racism' As A Cause of Poor Health Racism is messy. But acknowledging its effects is a key part of improving public health.

Segregation Increases Black Women's Risks for Severe Birth-Related Injuries - Rewire Hospitals with predominately Black patients “appear to provide lower quality of care,” a recent report found.

Why racism is bad for health Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans and other minority groups in the U.S. face disparities in education and income

In accepting Calderone prize, Bassett highlights racism's impact on public health More than three decades ago, Dr. Mary Bassett wrote an article in Monthly Review entitled 'The Health of Black Folk' in which she discussed the normalization - even the expectation - that black people would suffer from poor health. Her conclusion was that racism - its past and its present - were…

New Study Reveals "Unconscious White Preference" In Medical School Admissions A new study by researchers at The Ohio State University puts firmer numbers on the phenomenon of implicit racial bias. Researchers believe an unconscious

US cited for police violence, racism in scathing UN review on human rights US' second review before UN Human Rights Council dominated by criticism over police violence against black men

300+ UCSF Doctors, Nurses & Students Come Out in Support of Kaepernick Open letter by Rupa Marya, MD Dear Colin Kaepernick, I am writing to you to express deep respect, as a person born and raised in the Bay Area and a physician on faculty at UCSF who has been caring for the people of SF since 2002. I am also writing on

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“The downside of using race, whether in research or in the practice of medicine,” he says, “is that we are reifying it as if it has more biological significance than it deserves. Race is an imperfect surrogate for the causative information we seek. To the extent that we continue to use it, we are suggesting to the rest of the world that it is very reliable and that racial categories have more biological meaning than they do. We may even appear to suggest something that I know is not true: that there are bright lines between populations and that races are biologically distinct.”

Not a black and white question Medical research is starting to take account of people's race

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/10/30/racial-discrimination-modern-medicine-384961.html

"Scientifically, race serves only as a crude proxy for what experts call genetic ancestry—the diverse signatures that arose in the genetic code as our ancestors traversed the globe.

Some experts worry that a focus on finding genetic differences obscures the need to address the socioeconomic disparities that lead to uneven access to health care in the U.S. 'Focusing on inclusion in clinical trials is a great way to ignore the fact that large numbers of poor and minority people are getting less than optimal health care,' says Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society."

The Racial Discrimination Embedded in Modern Medicine Minority groups continue to be left out of clinical trials—and left to suffer overall worse medical care.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91657-race-and-medicine/

Race and Medicine BiDil was the first drug approved by the FDA for a specific racial group. We want to know what the ramifications are for using skin color as a diagnostic tool for diseases and disorders that can't be seen. Producer Soren Wheeler talks to Dr. Jay Cohn, developer of BiDil and cardiac specialist. Socio...

Protecting children from the trauma of gun violence, racism

Medical schools must play a role in addressing racial disparities Medical students are speaking up and working to eliminate racial bias in medicine. The leaders of medical schools and teaching hospitals should do the same.

APHA President Camara Jones: We need a nationwide conversation on racism | Public Health Newswire In a conversation with Public Health Newswire, APHA President Camara Jones underscored the need for a robust national conversation on racism as a first step to

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Why We Need to Talk About Racism as a Mental-Health Trigger A much needed conversation.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/10/medical-schools-teaching-race/

Teaching medical students to challenge 'unscientific' racial categories Medical schools are slowly starting to integrate more teaching about race into their curricula.

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Physicians for Criminal Justice Reform | Physicians advocating to eliminate the damaging health... Buy The ShirtLatest News PRESS RELEASE: Physicians for Criminal Justice Reform Calls For Implicit Racial Bias Training for Police Officers FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PfCJR - July 11, 2016 - Physicians for Criminal Justice Reform, Inc. (PfCJR) which advocates to eliminate the damaging health consequences…