Carl Earl Lambert, Jr., MD

Carl Earl Lambert, Jr. is a family physician.

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Conditions and diseases

Navigating infertility as a Black male family physician

Carl Earl Lambert, Jr., MD

December 7, 2021Dec 7, 2021

Black men need to be comfortable saying that we can be scared sometimes, and to share our emotions without guilt or shame. I say this as a Black man who has experienced vulnerability both as a family physician and as…

Black men need to be comfortable saying that we can be scared sometimes, and to share our emotions without guilt or shame.

I say this as a Black man who has experienced vulnerability both as a family physician and as a patient. Over the last year, I’ve been challenged in unforeseen ways. In my professional life, I’ve cared for patients with COVID-19 and other chronic medical conditions, engaged as a clinician-educator …

Physician voices

Black physicians are tired of paying the minority tax

Carl Earl Lambert, Jr., MD

January 23, 2021Jan 23, 2021

Here’s a controversial phrase for a doctor to say that needs to be normalized: “I am tired.” As a physician, working oneself to exhaustion for our patients is often seen as a sign of strength and even heroic. As a…

Here’s a controversial phrase for a doctor to say that needs to be normalized: “I am tired.”

As a physician, working oneself to exhaustion for our patients is often seen as a sign of strength and even heroic. As a rare Black male in medicine in the midst of a pandemic that is ravaging patients who look like me, I am especially battle fatigued. In fact, I

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