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Social justice
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Child Mental Healthcare Was Not Built for Children of Color

Child psychiatry and AACAP guidance have not adequately confronted racism, and common interventions can misplace harm onto children of color instead of racist structures.
Public health
fromianVisits
7 months ago

Beyond Florence Nightingale: Exhibition challenges the changing face of nursing

Nurses have been mythologised as young white female saints and heroes, creating damaging stereotypes that hinder recruitment, exclude non-conforming nurses, and mask racism.
fromwww.theguardian.com
8 months ago

You're the only port of call for 400 hospital patients, which is absurd': Matthew Hutchinson on the perils of life as an NHS doctor

You couldn't call it a microaggression, the patient's assumption that, being black, Hutchinson was unlikely to be an expert. But this anecdote barely registers on the Geiger counter of bigotry in healthcare that Hutchinson writes about trenchantly and acerbically, from the prejudices doctors face from patients and the gender and race blindspots in medical textbooks, to the racism that could endanger a patient's life (black women are four times more likely to die during childbirth).
Medicine
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