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email article Amid national outcry for racial justice last summer, neuroscience graduate student Angeline Dukes yearned for a sense of community among Black scholars in her field. Following the murder of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, Black scientists from other disciplines -- including astronomy, botany, geology, marine science, and ornithology -- created online movements to celebrate the work of their peers and bring attention to discrimination in STEM. Dukes thought it was time for the neuroscience community to do the same. So in early July, Dukes, a fou...

Every physician has had the experience. The moment you ask yourself, "Why am I doing this?" It could be when you look into the waiting room where there are more patients to be seen and know if you take a break, it will set you back even further. It could be on the final stretch of the 24-hour shift that redefined the meaning of the word "nonstop." It could be the third time you answer the phone to clarify an order because the new computer system only allows for the order to be formatted in a certain way. It could be when you take stock of your life and career and things don't add up. You're n...

The American Medical Association (AMA) has never been a trailblazer on issues of social and racial justice. As in society as a whole, attitudes at the AMA have changed, albeit at a glacial pace. In 2008, the AMA broke new ground and apologized for its long history of discrimination against Black physicians -- it didn't admit its first Black delegate to its policy-setting House of Delegates until 1950, more than a century after its founding -- and entered on what it calls a path of racial healing and reconciliation. Thirteen years later, AMA leadership again felt a sting of conscience abou...

email article The field of primary care continues to face mounting challenges, but there is some room for optimism, according to several experts. In 2019, there were about 229,000 primary care physicians in the U.S., "the largest primary care physician workforce we've ever seen and the largest primary care physician workforce per-capita we've ever seen," said Andrew Bazemore, MD, senior vice president for research and policy at the American Board of Family Practice, at an event on the state of primary care sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians; Bazemore cited American M...

email article The contributions made by African and Black American medical professionals to health and wellness are many. While determining just how many lives these trailblazers saved is impossible, we know that without their imagination, knowledge, and desire to help others many lives would have been lost. Since it is Black History Month, now is the perfect time to recognize and celebrate some of the numerous contributions the Black community has afforded the medical industry and the world overall. Around 1716 – Onesimus Onesimus is an African slave who, in 1706, is gifted to Cotton...