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Jennifer Goins
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Exploring Four Barriers Perceived by African Americans in Health Care - This article drawn from focus groups discusses four barriers facing African Americans seeking medical care: perceived discrimination, medical mistrust, race disconcordance, and poor communication, and offers way to help clnicians reduce or eliminate these barriers.
The Unasked Question - Written for clinicians, this article from JAMA discusses the health needs of our veterans, as well as the surprising size of this population.
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - This groundbreaking essay by Peggy McIntosh discusses the concept of "white privilege" - a series of advantages white people experience, typically without being conscious of them.
Some highlights:
1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
2. I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me.
3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.
4. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.
5. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.
Surviving as an Underrepresented Minority Scientist (Duke Today)
Duke Neuroscientist Erich Jarvis discusses his experiences as a minority in the academic scientific environment and compares them to the experiences of Ernest Everett Just, a pioneering African American science writer, cellular biologist and sociologist.
Transgender Health - Introduction to Language - This article from the American Medical Student Association attempts to describe importance issues around the transgender population for a clinical audience. Different sections include definitions of "transgender" and related terms, practical ways to improve primary care of transgender patients, and health disparities in the transgender population.