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The prevalence and burden of multiple sclerosis (MS) vary among individuals of different sexes, races, and ethnicities. 🌎 “We do have a responsibility to address the societal context of people with MS. We live in a very inequal world, a world where some people do struggle hugely. These difficulties need to be investigated and considered in the healthcare system," says Prof. Ruth Dobson of the Centre for Preventive Neurology of Queen Mary University of London. 🫂 A broad perspective on the person is necessary when treating people with MS to avoid the risk of neglecting individual characteristics or structural aspects. 🗣 “We need representation, a space to talk, the opportunity to listen to what is going on. We need to participate," adds Natalie Busari, Founder of The Nerve Of My Multiple Sclerosis CIC, on her experience as a Black person with MS. Read more about diversity in MS clinical care and research in the latest ECTRIMS Insights ➡️ https://bit.ly/4aTHbpZ #MS #MSResearch

Microaggressions are anything but 'micro' - they are real and their harm runs deep. In academia, they are everyday reminders of whose voices and experiences are valued and whose are dismissed. Denying their harm—and targeting those who speak out—protects systemic racism and silences necessary change. We can and must do better. Learn more about STOP Bad Therapy below! #AntiRacism #AntiOppressiveCare

I love these video reviews of my The New York Times best-seller LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine. 👩🏾⚕️🩺 Keep them coming! Sharing this #Repost from Procedure Press! ・・・ It’s my favorite thing when people who love medicine also create works calling it out. It’s clear that Uché Blackstock, MD fits the bill in her new book “Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine.” I appreciate that she lovingly shares her own mother’s story of being a groundbreaking Black woman physician as well as her own journey of diagnosing inequity and then tactical, realistic strategies for how we can build a better health future. Among the many disparities she explores, the data on sickle cell anemia was new to me and particularly heartbreakingly told through the story of the preventable death of her young patient Jordan. “...our health-care system has never devoted enough effort and resources to finding treatments and cures for this ‘Black’ disease. Sickle cell anemia was first identified over one hundred years ago, yet the medical establishment is still insufficiently invested in the research, care and treatment of this condition... Hemophilia, another inherited disease, affects around 20,00 mostly white people a year. There are 28 drugs to treat hemophilia. Meanwhile sickle cell disease affects a much larger population - 100,00 mostly Black people per year - but it only has two FDA-approved drugs for treatment.” #healthcarebooks #medicalbooks #medicalauthors #healthcareauthors #healthequity #healthjustice #authors #writers

Have you listened to our top episode yet? In this conversation, Janet explores the topic of neurodiversity in children with Dr. Barbara Muskat, a clinical social worker and professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. They discuss how the perception of neurodiversity has changed over time, the challenges neurodivergent people face, and how parents and teachers can best support these children. Listen to the full episode now: https://bit.ly/4841oZm #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #SpotifyWrapped

Do you know what I’m talking about? Through many life stages and transitional trajectories, primary to secondary, secondary to motherhood, motherhood to college and from college to University. From classroom through to various staffrooms, working clinically as a therapist, from the waiting room and into the boardroom. Developing communication skills and quick wit, to help you navigate the same old…..tricky tricky………..sh🐾£ It’s the time when your heart feels as though it’s stopped and you look around in shock, there’s a pause in the conversational flow…mic drop. 🎤Yet many are complicit, nobody comes over, you wonder if they noticed; from covert to explicit… then there are seasons of doubt as the drought comes… in the form of no remorse, a shrug of the shoulders, a snigger, a knowing smile, eyes flicker between them. Makes you think then.. they heard that too. How might I respond. Me the other…Even that one solitary ‘brother’is not saying anything about being wronged. Head down no corrections… Microaggressions; they are shot’s fired in your direction…. Some of us want to brush over it…move on….such a relentless tide and this was before I had the language and fully learnt and understood that this was not right. So as hard as it is, I’m no longer afflicted by having to keep second guessing myself. You see some of our backs have been bent and pushed back but we learnt through our faith how to stand tall and rise up. Monnica Williams many of us can stand tall. Because you and Derald Wing Sue have paved the way with mountains of scientific literature in over twenty decades. Which give a voice to our pain…breaking through layers of intersectional oppression. We no longer doubt and we will never question. We can now call it out. #StopBadTherapy. Keyboard warriors hiding behind pens who have not had to experience a reality that they attempt to disprove, yet they never have walked in our shoes, it’s a truth that we would love to remove. Historical context sets the scene. To those frozen in time not allowing for movement we will proceed. We are more than conquerors, we will overcome, take heed.

In his recent op-ed, Dr. Herbert Rakatansky, MD '56, clinical professor emeritus of medicine, shares invaluable reflections on aging with purpose. He discusses how staying engaged with family, passions, and meaningful work can enhance life at any age. His thoughtful perspective reminds us all of the importance of human connection and adaptability in later years. 👉 Read the full article: #AgingWithPurpose

Check out our new funding spotlight video, featuring Dr. Sara Jacoby. Several years ago, NINR funded Dr. Jacoby’s dissertation in which she used ethnography to explore how social and structural factors—especially policing and housing policies—impact Black trauma patients’ risk for injury, their acute care experience in the hospital, and their ability to recover. Her findings shed light on the importance of finding solutions that look beyond the individual. It also set her on a path to do more research in this space. Today, as a nurse researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, she works collaboratively and across disciplines with social epidemiologists, criminologists, and economists to conduct research that explores the complex intersection between law enforcement and emergency medical care as well as the ways in which people either recover or don't recover from serious injury in the context of their social, political, and physical environments. Learn more about NINR and the cross-sectoral, community-engaged research we promote at https://lnkd.in/ej83fgDB. #SocialDeterminants #FundedResearch #HealthEquity #NursingResearch

According to the National Medical Association, only 5.7% of doctors are Black. With 30% of all physicians leaving medicine, according to a 2024 Medscape report, it stands to reason that this percentage could disproportionately include Black doctors because of racism in medicine. Many patients of color consider the racial identity of their doctor when choosing a physician; thus, to lose Black doctors from a healthcare system with so few physicians that identify as Black is a public health concern. For me, LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism In Medicine, by Dr. Uché Blackstock, alludes to the question posed by Roberta Flack and Donnie Hathaway in their song, "Where is the Love?" Specifically, where is the love in medicine for Black physicians? Physician you can find some of the love and support you need through Wonderfully Well®. Visit my company website by going to the link in my bio. You can hear my review of LEGACY there too. I am not ashamed to admit that LOVE is my compass.🦋✝️ https://lnkd.in/grCUykWn #blackwomenphysicians #blackfemalephysicians #blackfemalephysician #blackwomandoctor #blackwomanphysician #blackwomendoctors #christianphysicians #christianphysician #christiandoctor #wonderfullywell #cardiologist #cardiology #familymedicinephysician #familymedicine #heartdoctors #obgyndoctor #obgyn #obstetricsandgynecology #heartdoctor #womeninmedicine

[Someone send this to that unnamed ER doctor in Ottawa] "Everyday racism seems a reasonable explanation for these findings. Though we might wish otherwise, medical training does not wholly free clinicians from preexisting racial beliefs, assumptions, or blind spots. While medicine has undoubtedly made significant progress toward addressing multicultural issues in clinical practice, some doctors undoubtedly harbor negative opinions about particular patients based on stereotyped cultural assumptions. As Francis Lu, a psychiatrist at the University of California at San Francisco, explains it "physician bias is a very real issue...we don't talk about it-it's upsetting. We see ourselves as unbiased and rational and scientific."-The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan M. Metzl, 2009