When will we address structural racism in obgyn?
"Including race within a discussion of cancer genetics ... promotes the unscientific assertion that racial differences in health are inherited."

https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Fulltext/2020/09000/Executive_Summary_of_the_Early_Onset_Breast_Cancer.35.aspx
"race and ethnicity were collapsed... and the term “Caucasian” [was used] - a term abandoned in the 1990s whose continued use has been described as, “a telltale sign of either rank or willful ignorance, neither of which is promising for critical scientific thought.”
"The way we as physicians communicate can either promote the historic structural racism of the status quo or support anti-racism. How can we eliminate racial inequities in women's cancers without attention to our underlying biases expressed through the language we use?" @acog
And great to write something even something small like a LTE with my favorite human @do_less_harm
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