#FollowFriday: @projectdiversifymedicine is your new daily pick-me-up! Featuring health professionals who are underrepresented in their fields and reminding us all what we’re working towards. ———— “What you think, you become.” ~Buddha ….. If you believe you can become a doctor then you will. DREAM. BELIEVE. WORK. REPEAT until you are wearing that long white...
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Medical Myth: “Black Women Feel Less Pain”
#throwbackthursday in Medical History: J. Marion Sims was a white sadist who is often considered “the father of gynecology”. His breakthroughs are built on the backs of enslaved black women and the *persisting* medical myth he perpetuated that “black women feel less pain”. He procured enslaved black women (at least two named Betsy and...
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Words Wendnesday: Dr. Tweedy Recalls Feeling Great
Dr. Tweedy recalls feeling great about acing his first med school exams at Duke…until a moment with his professor. “So I was coming into the classroom after a break and he comes up to me, somewhat angrily, and asks me about fixing the lights and that he called about this earlier and that I...
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Term Tuesday: Institutional Racism
Another #termtuesday! Your beginner’s guide or maybe the thing you send your exhausting friends who ask you all these questions ;D. An example of institutional racism in medicine: A disproportionate number of the uninsured are racial minorities. As health insurance access in the U.S. is *still* most often tied to employment, racial stratification of...
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In August, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump asked Black and Latinx voters, “What the hell do you have to lose?” Months later, Mr. Trump has vividly illustrated exactly how much people of color have to lose. He has attempted to impose travel regulations that limit our ability to visit our families, seek economic opportunity, or...
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We, the medical students of White Coats for Black Lives, mourn the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, grieve with their loved ones, and stand in solidarity with the Black community and their allies in Baton Rouge and St. Paul as they protest the continued violence against Black people by police. We also...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 7, 2015 Contacts: White Coats for Black Lives National Working Group, national@whitecoats4blacklives.org, (215) 385-3975 MEDIA ADVISORY Medical students to hold national protests for racial justice. Students at medical schools nationwide to demand that their schools enroll Black, Latino, and Native American students and ensure access to healthcare for patients in their...
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On Wednesday, November 18th, medical students across the nation donned their white coats and stood in solidarity with the students of color at Mizzou and Yale. Members of White Coats for Black Lives demonstrated support for undergraduate students currently protesting racism on their campuses by participating in teach-ins and sharing photos on social media....
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Black Lives Matter Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons May 1st, 2015 (Photo by Tony Valenzuela) Our identities, backgrounds, and life experiences are different. Yet, today we gather together to say: “Baltimore, we see you. We see your pain and our hearts break with you. We hear your voices, and our minds reach...
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#WhiteCoats4BlackLives: Health Care Workers Stage National Protests
Medical students from more than 70 schools on Wednesday protested racial profiling and police brutality through the social media initiative #WhiteCoats4BlackLives. Hundreds of medical students wore white coats at “die-ins” and other protests on campuses to spotlight racial bias as a public health issue. The medical students joined others who have demonstrated since grand...
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