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Since the last time the AMA House of Delegates gathered in person in 2019, there have been stimulus checks, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, along with several other COVID-19 related relief efforts sent from Washington. Now the AMA has developed its own plan […]
Racial and ethnic diversity would improve health care for underserved populations. It would take decades for the numbers of Black and Hispanic physicians to match the actual demographics of the United States, even if the number of Black and Hispanic medical student doubled consistently. The study, “The National Deficit of Black and Hispanic Physicians in […]
Black women physicians in the United States face hurdles and inequities that contribute toward their underrepresentation in medicine, argues an essay in The Lancet by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physician Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, and two colleagues. The essay, titled “Superhuman, But Never Enough: Black Women in Medicine,” gives voice to “the […]
Growing up in Oakland, California, Steve Isono, MD, clinical professor of orthopaedic surgery, played basketball and baseball, competed in long jump and high jump, and excelled in gymnastics, earning all-state honors. Like most sporty kids, he dreamed of one day going to the Olympics: He achieved that goal — just not quite how he imagined […]