tailieunhanh - The challenges of the itensivist: Part 2

(BQ) Continued part 1, part 2 of the document The challenges of the itensivist has contents: The aging intensivist and younger colleagues, the ageing intensivist and functional incapacity, future of critical care medicine, health care in the year 2050 and beyond,. and other contents. Invite you to refer. | Chapter 9 Race and the ICU Errington C. Thompson I m standing in line at a relatively crowded local restaurant. My stethoscope is around my neck because like my wedding ring it seems I never take it off. I also have my ID badge from the hospital clipped on to my blue blazer. A short middleaged man yells from across the restaurant Mr. Thompson Almost nobody calls me Mr. Thompson. Friends will call me Errington and others will call me Dr. Thompson. I reply Yes The man walks over to me as he says Did you go to State I grew up in Dallas and went to college at Emory University in Atlanta. A real curious look came across this man s face. He was initially sure that I was someone he used to know now he isn t so sure. Mistaken identity is not unusual. It happens. It happens more often when a person of one race is trying to identify a person of another race 1 . When I wore a white medical jacket in the hospital it was relatively common for someone to say Hi Dr. So-and-So. Dr. So-and-So is a black physician and I am also a black physician. It isn t that we look the same. We do not. I am relatively tall at 6 2 and Dr. So-and-So is short and stocky. For the most part I would like to think that these people are trying to be friendly but don t take the time to really focus on facial features. In 2002 the Institute of Medicine released Unequal Treatment 2 . This was a critical indictment of the medical community with regard to race and ethnic disparities. There were several critical findings Finding 1-1 Racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare exist and because they are associated with worse outcomes in many cases are unacceptable. Finding 2-1 Racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare occur in the context of broader historic and contemporary social and economic inequality and evidence of persistent racial and ethnic discrimination in many sectors of American life. . Thompson MD Department of Surgery Marshall University 1600 Medical Center Dr Suite 2500 Huntington WV 25705

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