PathPod News Edition: How Institutional Racism Negatively Impacts Patient Care and Physician Training

This week, Dr. Meredith Pittman (@merepitt) speaks with Dr. Kevin Simon (@DrKMSimon), a psychiatrist at Boston Children's Hospital, about the role that structural racism plays in everyday encounters between physicians and patients, trainees and educators, and physician colleagues. They discuss the way that COVID-19 has highlighted race-based disparity, and Dr. Simon gives advice for dealing with kids during a pandemic and quarantine.  Links to articles, essays, and books referenced in the audio: How to Engage with our Black and Brown patients:  https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/224419/depression/how-can-we-better-engage-black-men-patients Myths about Black Patients:  https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/03/30/1516047113.abstract  Health Disparities for our Black Patients:  https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-racial-disparities-pain-reduction-minority.html https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/p0905-racial-ethnic-disparities-pregnancy-deaths.html Discrminiation in medical training:  https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1915891 and https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768354 and https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/06/18/racism-doctor-harvard-medicine-training-tafadzwa-muguwe Discrminiation as an attending:  https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/16/black-doctors-leaving-faculty-positions-academic-medical-centers/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/01/structural-racism-is-why-im-leaving-organized-psychiatry/  Implicit Bias: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/making-people-aware-of-their-implicit-biases-doesnt-usually-change-minds-but-heres-what-does-work https://gender.stanford.edu/news-publications/gender-news/why-does-john-get-stem-job-rather-jennifer Books: https://bookshop.org/books/the-protest-psychosis-how-schizophrenia-became-a-black-disease/9780807001271 https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-be-an-antiracist/9780525509288   Featured public domain music: Loyalty Freak Music, I'M ON FIRE