Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
The January 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association features the article “Association of Race and Ethnicity with Live Donor Kidney Transplantation… Read More »Racial/Ethnic Disparities Persist in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation
The Journeys in Medicine event on Oct. 17 focused on the topic of “Empowering Care Providers to Address Patient Discrimination in the Clinical Setting." While this is… Read More »Empowering Care Providers to Address Patient Discrimination in the Clinical Setting
Many may recall this past spring when the media led a full-court press focusing on work published by Case and Deaton in PNAS in 2015 on… Read More »Higher Death Rates In White Americans—Is There an Epidemic of Despair?
The Department of Medicine Civic Engagement Committee would like all of our faculty, staff and trainees to consider attending this Journeys in Medicine session on Tuesday,… Read More »Journeys in Medicine Event
In a recent JAMA Viewpoint article, "Making All Lives Matter in Medicine From the Inside Out," Michael O. Mensah, a current resident at the University… Read More »Experiencing Racial Bias During Medical Training
A few months back, a colleague emailed me an essay entitled “Medical Education and the Minority Tax” from the Journal of the American Medical Association.… Read More »Are you taxed?
On Wednesday, June 21, The Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Medicine’s Civic Engagement Committee volunteered in the Douglas Homes Community Health Fair. The purpose of… Read More »The Civic Engagement Committee Steps Out
About two years ago our department began on a journey to chronicle thought-provoking articles, activities and innovative ideas that focused on community engagement, community health and… Read More »Journeys Forward
In a recent Health Affairs Blog "Restoring Equity to the Health Law Debate," Abraham Nussbaum, a psychiatrist at Denver Health, delivers an awakening perspective on a… Read More »Is Equity the Missing Link?
Managing medically complex patients from around Maryland and the world is a practice that physicians at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions regularly handle. However, the experience… Read More »Dealing with Racist Patients