Tag: Cultural reckoning
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...
‘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...
‘If I had gone along the path advised, I would never...
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....
Doubted as a doctor during mid-flight medical emergency and once asked:...
In a vascular surgery career spanning 20 years, Vincent Rowe, MD, has seen it all: Tending to patients at bedside, the vascular surgical services...
‘Casting a wider net’ when researching genetic and molecular factors of...
For vascular surgeon and research scientist Elsie Gyang Ross, MD, the world of data science might hold some of the answers to the kind...
‘Improving disparities in healthcare is not a matter of slapping some...
Andrew Gonzalez, MD, had a heart for underserved and under- resourced communities embedded early. The son of a pediatric hematologist mother who worked at...
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...
Vascular fellow: ‘Keeping your head down does not save you from...
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...
‘I cannot remove my black skin’: Perspective of a vascular surgery...
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...
‘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...
Black patients in areas with lowest PAD rates disproportionally at higher...
It’s among the most topical areas of discussion in current U.S. cultural life: Black people face disparities in terms of healthcare outcomes. And the...
Dispatches: Opening up a difficult conversation around systemic racism
Recent times have wrought a potent cocktail of cultural disarray on the psyche of the United States. In medicine and vascular surgery, this confluence...