JAMA Internal Medicine, October 1, 2017
I was in medical school when I learned that I did not matter
in medicine.
One particular day on service started uneventfully. However,
after the team’s discussion of a patient, all attention turned toward me when a
senior physician asked me a question about the rap music
that had been playingin the background.
“Help me understand something:” I recall the physician saying.
The physician asked about word choice in rap lyrics, and then, pretending to
quote a rap song, repeated the word “nigger” several times in rapid-fire
succession.
So begins this important “Viwepoint” article in JAMA
Internal Medicine. Most of us will
benefit from reading it. Read full article.
Damon Tweedy's Book, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine, eloquently covers the much of the same ground.
Damon Tweedy's Book, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine, eloquently covers the much of the same ground.
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