This week, Dr. Meredith Pittman (@merepitt) speaks with Dr. Kevin Simon (@DrKMSimon), a psychiatrist at Boston Children's Hospital, about the role that structural racism plays in everyday encounters between physicians and patients, trainees and educators, and physician colleagues. They discuss the way that COVID-19 has highlighted race-based disparity, and Dr. Simon gives advice for dealing with kids during a pandemic and quarantine. 
Links to articles, essays, and books referenced in the audio:
How to Engage with our Black and Brown patients: 
https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/224419/depression/how-can-we-better-engage-black-men-patients
Myths about Black Patients: 
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/03/30/1516047113.abstract 
Health Disparities for our Black Patients: 
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-racial-disparities-pain-reduction-minority.html
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/p0905-racial-ethnic-disparities-pregnancy-deaths.html

Discrminiation in medical training: 
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1915891 and
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768354 and
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/06/18/racism-doctor-harvard-medicine-training-tafadzwa-muguwe
Discrminiation as an attending: 
https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/16/black-doctors-leaving-faculty-positions-academic-medical-centers/
https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/01/structural-racism-is-why-im-leaving-organized-psychiatry/ 
Implicit Bias:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/making-people-aware-of-their-implicit-biases-doesnt-usually-change-minds-but-heres-what-does-work
https://gender.stanford.edu/news-publications/gender-news/why-does-john-get-stem-job-rather-jennifer
Books:
https://bookshop.org/books/the-protest-psychosis-how-schizophrenia-became-a-black-disease/9780807001271
https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-be-an-antiracist/9780525509288
 

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