AMA releases document on appropriate language and health equity
https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf
The AMA recently released this equity guide focused on how words nobody finds problematic are now problematic. For example, the term "diabetic" is dehumanizing - the correct term is "person with diabetes." I wonder if this was concluded after surveying diabetics and finding that the majority consider the term dehumanizing, or because a small handful of academics decided it was. The term "whitelist" or "blacklist" is also...
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