I just heard a talk by Kimberly Manning MD, Associate Professor of Medicine as well as the Associate Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Emory University School of Medicine, department of Medicine at the American College of Physician's virtual yearly meeting. She gave one of the plenary addresses and hers was called "Broadening your life lens, the case for diversity." I almost didn't watch it because I attend this meeting for the concentrated information on how to take care of patients with certain conditions that I get from talks with names like "Pearls for the management of insomnia not to miss." I thought that this was a talk for other people, and since I had studied this subject, maybe not for me. But I watched it anyway. It was great. Dr. Manning is a full professor at her institution, which makes her very special. She told us that 0.7% full professors of medicine are black women. 25% of full professors are women and Black women make u...
The cost of health care in the US is higher than anywhere else in the world, and yet we are not healthier than our peer nations. In fact, in terms of such measures as infant mortality and life span, we don't measure up. Why is this? Many people involved in providing or receiving care have some pretty good ideas about what costs so much, and what we can do to reduce costs and improve quality. Sharing these stories is an important step in creating affordable universal health care.