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  • Bioethics Forum Essay

    TV Show Depicts Racism in Medicine

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    Bioethics Forum Essay
    The television show The Good Doctor has always focused on issues of diversity and inclusion in medicine from its storylines to its casting. This week’s episode “Irresponsible Salad Bar Practices” asked an important question: Is medical practice inherently racist?
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  • Advancing Social Justice, Health Equity, and Community

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    Advancing Health Equity, and Community

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    CALLAHAN LECTURE
    An online event. February 9, 2021 at 12pm EST
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    Advancing Social Justice, Health Equity, and Community

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    The 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...
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  • Bioethics Forum Essay

    Ethical Medicine Means Getting Political

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    Dilemmas 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.
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    Structural Racism, White Fragility, and Ventilator Rationing Policies

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    It’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.
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