Tag: systemic racism

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...

‘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...

‘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...

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...

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...