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Alexander T. Janke, Jennifer Tsai, Kristen Panthagani

February 19, 2023, Medpage Today

New data from two studies we recently published in JAMA Network Open document what patients, nurses, and doctors already know: the levees have broken. The system has collapsed under the weight of acute care needs.

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Jennifer Tsai, Rohan Khanzanchi, Emily LaFlamme

January 30, 2023, STAT, First Opinion

Even in 2022, the degree of missing data on race and ethnicity in federal Covid-19 databases was still simply too high. In a national dataset of more than 50 million Covid-19 cases assembled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 17 million did not have race/ethnicity data. That’s 34% of cases. By comparison, just 1% of cases were missing data on age and sex.

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Jennifer Tsai, Hazar Khidir

January 4, 2023, STAT, First Opinion

All pregnant people should have a right to seek care in an emergency department if they believe they are experiencing a medical emergency. But we’re concerned that strategies that depend on delineating emergencies with restrictions on what counts as one produce ambiguities that create practical barriers to care and have the potential to deepen existing health inequities.

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October 26, 2021, Bustle

As an emergency medicine physician, I find her sentencing a disgrace. As a woman and citizen, I am appalled and angry.

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November 10, 2021, New Scientist

Should your race or ethnicity influence the prescription you get from your doctor? Both are still used in medicine to interpret test results and guide treatment decisions, but the evidence is questionable and the approach can cause serious harm.

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June 27, 2021, Slate

How an assumption made in a study in 1999 is delaying treatment for thousands of Black Americans.

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December 4, 2020, Scientific American

Even after being hospitalized for an entire week, my friend Aidan never got an answer to a major question: Who is my doctor?

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September 8, 2020, Scientific American

So while COVID-19 is not a story about race, it is a story about racism. One that judges bodies of color as preordained sources of disease and menace—dangerous even down to their DNA. It is the same gaze that indicted George Floyd as a worthy target of violence even as he was handcuffed, helpless, unable to breathe.

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July 14, 2020, Scientific American

And stop letting hospital security guards carry guns; there are better ways to keep patients and staff safe

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June 6, 2020, Scientific American

The weaponization of medical language emboldened white supremacy with the authority of the white coat. How will we stop it from happening again?

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January 30, 2020, Scientific American

The culture of the Football Industrial Complex is a public health risk, but we aren’t treating it like one.

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June 24, 2019, ELLE Magazine

61% of students who reported performing a pelvic exam on an unconscious female patient did so without explicit consent.

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July 11, 2018, STATNews

How do racial associations in medical board licensing exams train doctors to pay attention to race in problematic ways?

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January 31, 2019, New England Journal of Medicine

Despite having conducted numerous speculum exams, the medical student had yet to submit to her own first pelvic exam. In college, she had been sexually assaulted in her dorm room, and the idea of the exam brought up ferocious anxiety, metallic bile, fear, and refusal.

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September 12, 2018, Scientific American

Rather than a risk factor, it’s better conceptualized as a risk marker of vulnerability, bias or systemic disadvantage

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July 12, 2018, Scientific American

More students are coming from marginalized groups, but when they arrive they’re often told to hide what makes them different

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April 4, 2018, Scientific American

I am a medical student, and that statistic sits on my chest like a death threat.

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January 30, 2018, Scientific American

Does anyone out there believe that the current, overwhelmingly white opioid epidemic is due to racial genetic differences?

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January 23, 2018, Scientific American

On my left, the ragged, meaty stump of a severed neck stands upright like an abandoned signpost.

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October 1, 2016, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

The verifiable clusterfuck conjures a confusing encounter for a green medical student: screams for attention while defying articulation.

Nurse Making Notes

January 31, 2016, In-Training Magazine

I was flabbergasted — stunned that one can claim any semblance of expertise on the sickness and grief of millions of people, thousands of years, uncountable stretches of sinew, land, faith and life using just fragments of sentences and sense.

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December 10, 2015, In-Training Magazine

e asked people to consider: what bodies are recognized as fully human?

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September 29, 2015, In-Training Magazine

Approximately one in three women under the age of 45 have had an abortion

Approximately one in three women under the age of 45 have a tattoo.

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February 17, 2015, In-Training Magazine

My first experience wearing my short white coat began in a conference room filled with hospitalists awaiting a Morbidity and Mortality discussion.

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December 10, 2014, In-Training Magazine

This demonstration is also a time for us to reflect.

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December 2, 2013, In-Training Magazine

Michael Brown is one of many victims systemic racism has claimed, and until doctors acknowledge the position of medicine within institutional racism, our health care system will continue to reproduce tragedies like Ferguson, even in the absence of a smoking gun.

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