Experiences in racism of a female resident physician
I am tired. I am tired of you telling me how to respond to racism. I ’ve experienced racism and microaggressions as a brown woman my entire life. You have been trying to control my response for just as long. Stop. In high school, when another student told me to “go back to Africa” and I […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/crystal-cobb" rel="tag" > Crystal Cobb, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
What If Healthcare Was Like Wikipedia?
By KIM BELLARD
Last week I wrote about, well, how awful social media has become, so this week it’s nice to write about pretty much the opposite: Wikipedia turned twenty last Friday (January 15).
In person years that’s not even old enough to buy alcohol, but in Internet years that makes it one of the grand old masters, like Google or Amazon. Wikipedia is one of the most visited Internet destinations, with its 55+ million articles, in 300+ languages, getting some 10b+ views per month.
It is something that, by all rights, shouldn’t exist, much less be successful. A non-profit, volunt...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Wikipedia Source Type: blogs
Restorative Justice: Don ’t Presume “We’re Better Than This ”
By MIKE MAGEE
“We’re better than this” is the common refrain heard from many political leaders following the deadly assault on our democracy on January 6th. We hear empty appeals for blind appeasement from the likes of Kevin McCarthy in the interest of “bringing our country together.” But for those of us who study medical history, pursuing this course takes our nation in exactly the wrong direction.
Rather, the model we must follow is the model of Germany in 1945, or South Africa in 1995. In both cases, strict legal and public accountability (retributive justice) were married with fundamental expansion ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Public Health Mike Magee restorative justicee Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 623
The following objects were seen on a peripheral blood film from a patient with chronic, worsening swelling in his groin over the past 5 years. He is from Central Africa. The stain is the Delafield ' s hematoxylin. Diagnosis? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - January 19, 2021 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
More on property
As I wrote recently, the concept of private property is a social construct. It isn ' t a fact of nature, " out there " to be discovered. It ' s an invention. The social conventions about what can and cannot be property, and what rights inhere in various kinds of property, and who can own what property, vary from time to time and place to place. And possession of property is not inevitably or inherently just.In the United States, for example -- as in many other times and places -- people could be property. The people who were owned, of course, had no property rights. Slave owners maintained that depriving the of the right t...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 16, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
