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Diversity, equity and inclusion: Disparities in medicine and vascular surgery
Recent months have yielded a conversation on systemic racism perhaps unlike any other before. We’ve learned about how it manifests across society, how it impacts those on the receiving end, and how it can appear in subtle guises, including in…
‘Significant’ number of vascular surgery faculty suffer workplace sexual harassment
The Journal of Vascular Surgery August issue featured a paper whose findings established a significant number of faculty of vascular surgery training programs had experienced workplace sexual harassment after an anonymous survey. “Gender disparity and sexual harassment in vascular surgery practices,”…
‘If I had gone along the path advised, I would never have become a surgeon’
Some of the formative educational experiences described by Olamide Alabi, MD, read like textbook examples of the subtleties many see as baked into U.S. society, multiplying down the years as the very face of systemic racism in the country. These…
Doubted as a doctor during mid-flight medical emergency and once asked: ‘Shouldn’t you be playing basketball?’
In a vascular surgery career spanning 20 years, Vincent Rowe, MD, has seen it all: Tending to patients at bedside, the vascular surgical services chief at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center has had his very presence as a…
‘Casting a wider net’ when researching genetic and molecular factors of disease
For vascular surgeon and research scientist Elsie Gyang Ross, MD, the world of data science might hold some of the answers to the kind of healthcare disparities on which the current cultural climate has refocused minds. Ross, an assistant professor…
‘Improving disparities in healthcare is not a matter of slapping some paint on something and doing whatever is a quick fix’
Andrew Gonzalez, MD, had a heart for underserved and under- resourced communities embedded early. The son of a pediatric hematologist mother who worked at Cook County Hospital in Chicago for 31 years, his mom spent a lot of her time…
Sheahan: On professionals and professionalism
On March 19, 2019, I sat in the audience of the scientific sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS). I was there with two of my trainees who were eagerly waiting to present their…
Vascular fellow: ‘Keeping your head down does not save you from inequality’
Pain is often fully experienced in isolation. It’s these experiences that serve as some of the most defining moments in life. The history of race cannot be recounted without sorrow. It remains a constant reminder of our differences, a difference…
‘I cannot remove my black skin’: Perspective of a vascular surgery resident
For each of the past 10 days, I’ve woken up and asked myself the same questions: Do I matter? Does my life have as much value as that of anyone else? I haven’t had positive answers to these questions. Not…
‘White male culture in medical school could perpetuate healthcare disparities’
An often omnipresent culture of white male representation in medical schools could “lead even the most well-meaning students to perpetuate healthcare disparities in their future practices,” a recent perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine argues. LaShyra Nolen,…