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TV Show Depicts Racism in Medicine
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Advancing Health Equity, and Community
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Advancing Social Justice, Health Equity, and Community
Read the PostCALLAHAN LECTUREThe Covid-19 pandemic has made longstanding, seemingly intractable inequities painfully visible. In addition to widespread suffering, African Americans and Latinx communities are dying at three times the rate of White communities, and there is growing momentum for racial reckoning not seen since the...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Ethical Medicine Means Getting Political
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayDilemmas that clinicians face in the coronavirus pandemic–who gets the ventilator, the 80-year-old grandmother or the 20-year-old student?–are the bread and butter of mainstream bioethics. In medical school, my classmates and I memorized the four principles (beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and autonomy), which we were told would help us make hard clinical decisions in ethically ambiguous terrain. But Covid-19 shows that medical ethics means much more than what generally falls under bioethics. Medical ethics is deeply political, and to act ethically in medicine means engaging the larger context in which it operates.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Structural Racism, White Fragility, and Ventilator Rationing Policies
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIt’s been painful to watch health leaders twist themselves into moral knots denying that recently created ventilator rationing guidance will differentially affect Blacks, Latinx, and other people of color. On television, in newspapers, and on listservs, when the predicted disproportionate impacts of these policies are raised, some bioethicists-often white, stonewall. Or repeat a policy’s assertions that race, ethnicity, disability, etc. are irrelevant to care decisions. Or default to the intent of the policymakers.Read the Post