Shani R. Scott is an internal medicine physician.

Who is taking care of the minority physicians?

Physician
August 21, 2020

Headlines are pouring in, warning us of the impending spikes in coronavirus cases throughout the country and the rise of eerily disturbing cases of children with a mysterious viral rash. All of these alerts appear against the backdrop of the loudest national outcry for justice and equality since the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Navigating these crises is exhausting, given the dual existence experienced by many Black and Latinx physicians …

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Who is taking care of the minority physicians?

The climbing rates of maternal mortality in Black women

Policy
December 9, 2019

To put it simply, I’m scared by news headlines and conversations about the climbing rates of maternal mortality among Black women. I’m not surprised, however. As an internist, I regularly marvel at the advances that have been made in Western medicine, yet I pause and wonder why, in our profession, we continually get this mortality issue wrong.

The conversation about the state of Black women’s health has reached a …

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The climbing rates of maternal mortality in Black women