Calling all surgeons and surgical trainees who have ever been pregnant to fill out this anonymous survey studying the impact of workload on pregnancy outcomes 😷🤰https://t.co/vLV8WU99f7 thank you to all who have already participated! #ilooklikeasurgeon#ACS2022@AmCollSurgeons
A new study in @accpchest from @JEFFsurgery & collaborators, led by Dr. Olugbenga Okusanya (@okusanyamd), shows that Black patients were least likely to receive surgery, the most effective treatment, for thymic cancer: https://t.co/WFZChG604r
#JeffersonSurgery#JeffersonResearch
The next HUMANS of RAS essay contest is here!!!
Upcoming Topic:
Systemic Racism and the Black Lives Matter Movement: Navigating Surgery Training as a Person of Color.
SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY (500 WORD LIMIT) OR PHOTO TO
[email protected] by December 27th, 2020
I will make contact to these programs directly. These racist comments not only tear at the confidence of the trainee but is a direct reason as to why outcomes are worse for patients. Definitely why dismissal rates are skewed #ImplicitAndExplicitBias must be addressed in medicine.
Every surgeon and staff in the Department of Surgery took a significant cut in compensation this year. But we had to catch up on a backlog of patients needing care. So I said to our team, “I am asking you to work harder, but for less money.” And they are doing it @UWSurgery
Happening tomorrow (10/14): Nikole Hannah-Jones, 1619 Project founder, joins the Jefferson Humanities Forum at 12 pm, to talk about racial equity, health, and reframing the legacy of slavery. More info: https://t.co/gxyWpIwvgX
Very proud of this paper and of @waseemlutfi for his hard work on this. @UPMC_CTSurgery@JEFFsurgery Still lots of work to be done on this topic.
Racial disparities in local therapy for early stage non-small-cell lung cancer https://t.co/mj8pEeCIIo