Once upon a time in med school...

[George K]

Take a dive into the PDFs.

https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/diversity/

When presenting a case, you can no longer say, "Mr. Barnhardt is a 56 year old white male."

https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/md-education/learning-environment/checklist.html

[LuFins Dad]

@george-k said in Once upon a time in med school...:

Take a dive into the PDFs.

https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/diversity/

When presenting a case, you can no longer say, "Mr. Barnhardt is a 56 year old white male."

https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/md-education/learning-environment/checklist.html

Even though each of those facts are relevant in a prognosis and treatment…

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[Jolly]

@george-k said in Once upon a time in med school...:

Take a dive into the PDFs.

https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/diversity/

When presenting a case, you can no longer say, "Mr. Barnhardt is a 56 year old white male."

https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/md-education/learning-environment/checklist.html

That's insane. Racial differences call for various treatments...Just off the top of my head, I know you can't use the same dilating drops on caucasian and black people's eyes.

[xenon]

@lufins-dad said in Once upon a time in med school...:

Even though each of those facts are relevant in a prognosis and treatment…

I remember some blood tests have range differences for African Americas, Hispanic, etc.

[George K]

I guess that, for all these years, my anesthetic practices were also sublty racist.

[Copper]

This is ok as long as patients are included in the process.

Let's just ask the patient if they want the best medical treatment or if they want the most politically favorable treatment.

[LuFins Dad]

@george-k said in Once upon a time in med school...:

I guess that, for all these years, my anesthetic practices were also sublty racist.

Mik could have told you that getting a redhead drunk was far more difficult than a brunette...

[taiwan_girl]

Pretty goofy, in my opinion

[Friday]

@george-k said in Once upon a time in med school...:

When presenting a case, you can no longer say, "Mr. Barnhardt is a 56 year old white male."

So.....how are you supposed to present the case?

[George K]

@friday said in Once upon a time in med school...:

So.....how are you supposed to present the case?

"Mr. Barnhardt is a 56 year old person who identifies as 'male'."

" Mr. Barnhardt is a 56 year old Non-POC male."

"Mr. Barnhardt is a male who declines to state his age"

"Mr. Barnhardt is a person who declines to state their age"

"Edward Barnhardt is a person who declines to state their age"

So.
Many.
Possibilities.