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Two dermatologists one Black and female, the other white and male are calling on their colleagues at all levels of training and leadership to join the fight against systemic racism and the legacy of racial injustice against Black patients.
Inherent biases in medical education must be addressed, the number of visible minorities within the specialty increased, and unnecessary variations in clinical care eliminated, Robert J. Smith, MD, and Brittany U. Oliver, MD, wrote in a recent
Smith, assistant professor of dermatology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, and Oliver, a resident in dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, provide a strategic blueprint for tackling racial disparities both inside the specialty and beyond the clinic.
The anti-vaccination crowd has found a new way to maybe get people killed. Goodbye, hydroxychloroquine. Hello ivermectin, a horse dewormer.
The drug began circulating in goonybird rhetoric last December as a possible treatment for prophylaxis in COVID-19 patients. It’s since entered conspiracy theory circles as the simple cure They don’t want you to know about because vaccination is all a scam to put autistic microchips into us or something.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) – the man who also touted the theory that the violent insurrectionists that attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6 were secretly anti-Trump forces trying to make the president look bad – is responsible for putting the drug in the spotlight. He invited Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) doctor and co-leader Paul Marik, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, to testify in the Senate.
In a commentary for a chess magazine, British chess Grandmaster Nigel Short appealed to neuroscience to support his claim that women’s brains are “hard-wired” in a way that predisposes females to have less innate chess aptitude than their male counterparts.
In essay titled Vive la Différence!” published this week in
Chess In News, Mr. Short writes that Dutch chess Grandmaster Johannes Hendrikus Donner, may have “had a point,” when he wrote, “The difference between the sexes is remarkable in chess, but not any more so, to my mind, than any other field of cultural activity. Women cannot play chess, but they cannot paint either, or write, or philosophise. In fact, women have never thought or made anything worth considering.”
Over-medication can be dangerous and patients should consult with medical professions to ensure an effective plan of treatment, Dr. Bob Newman writes in a guest column.
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