Racism in Medicine: Implicit and Explicit
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January 2021 PRACTICE MANAGEMENT COMMENTARY IN THE LITERATURE Volume 25 No. 1 Benefits of Lean Loneliness in Anticoagulant choice p12 Management p16 COVID patients p18 in APS patients Racism in medicine: Implicit and explicit By Sarah Ludwig Rausch Dr. Ndidi Unaka, MDedge News hospitalist and associate program ith the violent deaths of Breonna Taylor, George director of the Floyd, and other Black citizens setting off protests pediatric residency and unrest, race was at the forefront of national training program conversation in the United States – along with at Cincinnati WCOVID-19 – over the past year. Children’s Hospital “We’ve heard things like, ‘We’re in a post-racial society,’ but I think 2020 in particular has emphasized that we’re not,” said Gregory Johnson, MD, SFHM, chief medical officer of hospital medicine at Sound Physicians, a national physician practice. “Racism is very present in our lives, it’s very present in our world, and it is abso- lutely present in medicine.” Yes, race is still an issue in the United States as we head into 2021, though this may have come as something of a surprise to people who do not live with racism daily. Continued on page 14 ® the-hospitalist.org MICHAEL WILSON/CINCINNATI CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL SURVEY INSIGHTS EDITOR’S DESK Sandra Gage, MD, Weijen Chang, MD, PhD, SFHM, FAAP SFHM, FAAP Pediatric highlights Leading hospitalists 500 PERMIT Denville, NJ 07834-3000 NJ Denville, PA HARRISBURG from the 2020 SoHM. during a pandemic. PAID p22 p26 P.O. Box 3000, 3000, Box P.O. POSTAGE U.S. CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED SERVICE CHANGE THE HOSPITALIST THE STD PRSRT 01_12_to_15_HOSP21_01.indd 1 12/16/2020 3:31:27 PM CAREER NEWS January 2021 Volume 25 No. 1 PHYSICIAN EDITOR THE SOCIETY OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE Hospitalist Weijen W. Chang, MD, SFHM, FAAP Phone: 800-843-3360 [email protected] Fax: 267-702-2690 Website: www.HospitalMedicine.org movers and shakers PEDIATRIC EDITOR Anika Kumar, MD, FHM, FAAP Chief Executive Officer By Matt Pesyna Rehabilitation Hospitals, including [email protected] Eric E. Howell, MD, MHM his most recent post as a hospitalist COORDINATING EDITORS Daniel Steinberg, MD, SFHM, re- and medical director of the hospi- Alan Hall, MD Director of Communications THE FUTURE HOSPITALIST Brett Radler cently was among 10 medical edu- talist program at Catholic Health [email protected] cators across the country to receive Initiatives Health St. Elizabeth in Keri Holmes-Maybank, MD, FHM the Accreditation Lincoln. INTERPRETING DIAGNOSTIC TESTS Communications Specialist CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Caitlin Cowan Council for Grad- Dr. Schmidt currently serves on [email protected] uate Medical Edu- the board of directors for OneHealth Yelena Burklin, MD, FHM, FACP David Chia, MD, MSc cation 2021 Parker Nebraska, an independent physi- Weijen W. Chang, MD, SFHM, FAAP SHM BOARD OF DIRECTORS J. Palmer Courage cians association. Krishna A. Chokshi, MD President to Teach Award. Andrew Chung, MD; Ariel Y. Elyahu, MD Danielle Scheurer, MD, MSCR, SFHM President-Elect Considered the Ezinne Nwude, MD, recently was Sandra Gage, MD, PhD, SFHM, FAAP Rex Hermansen, MD Jerome C. Siy, MD, SFHM most prestigious presented with the SCP Health Ex- Michael Herscher, MD; Andrew Kim, MD Treasurer award given to cellence in Leadership Award during Jim Kling; Amit S. Narayan, MD Rachel Thompson, MD, MPH, SFHM Secretary Matt Pesyna; David Portnoy, MD Dr. Steinberg graduate medical the organization’s Medical Lead- Kris Rehm, MD, SFHM Sarah Ludwig Rausch Immediate Past President education pro- ership Conference. Dr. Nwude is Pallabi Sanyal-Dey, MD, FHM gram directors, it “recognizes pro- chief of staff and hospitalist at the Christopher Frost, MD, SFHM Danielle Scheurer, MD, MSCR, SFHM Board of Directors gram directors who have fostered Medical Center of South Arkansas, Ken Terry; Larissa Thomas, MD, MPH Tracy Cardin, ACNP-BC, SFHM innovation and improvement in El Dorado. Miriam E. Tucker Steven B. Deitelzweig, MD, Gregory Welsh, MD, FAAP their residency/fellowship program SCP Health coordinates staffing MMM, FACC, SFHM Zanthia Wiley, MD; Elizabeth Yoo, MD Bryce Gartland, MD, FHM and served as exemplary role mod- for more than 7,500 providers cov- Flora Kisuule, MD, MPH, SFHM FRONTLINE MEDICAL Mark W. Shen, MD, SFHM els for residents and fellows.” ering 30 states and is one of the COMMUNICATIONS EDITORIAL STAFF Darlene Tad-y, MD, SFHM Dr. Steinberg was program direc- nation’s largest clinical practice Executive Editor Kathy Scarbeck, MA Chad T. Whelan, MD, FACP, FHM tor for internal medicine residency management companies. More than Editor Richard Pizzi Creative Director Louise A. Koenig at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New 420 medical leaders nationwide were Director, Production/Manufacturing FRONTLINE MEDICAL York, for 11 years (2009-2020) before eligible for the award. Dr. Nwude Rebecca Slebodnik COMMUNICATIONS ADVERTISING STAFF becoming associate dean for quality has focused on positive culture and EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Senior Director Business Development and patient safety in graduate med- health education since her start at Hyung (Harry) Cho, MD, SFHM; Angelique Ricci, 973-206-2335 cell 917-526-0383 [email protected] ical education in September. He is a MSCA in 2014. She has been chief of Marina S. Farah, MD, MHA; Ilaria Gadalla, DMSc, PA-C; Classified Sales Representative professor of medicine and medical staff since October 2018. James Kim, MD; Heather Gonroski, 973-290-8259 education at Icahn School of Medi- Ponon Dileep Kumar, MD, FACP, CPE; [email protected] cine at Mount Sinai, New York. RWJ Barnabas Health (West Or- Shyam Odeti, MD, MS, FHM; Linda Wilson, 973-290-8243 Venkataraman Palabindala, MD, SFHM; [email protected] Dr. Steinberg also is a leader with- ange, N.J.) recently named two Tiffani M. Panek, MA, SFHM, CLHM; Senior Director of Classified Sales in SHM, serving on the education, new health system leaders from Adhikari Ramesh, MD, MS; Tim LaPella, 484-921-5001 physicians-in-training, and annual among its hospital medicine ranks, Raj Sehgal, MD, FHM; cell 610-506-3474 [email protected] Kranthi Sitammagari, MD; conference committees. 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