April 27th, 2021
Podcast 278: Where equity and community health intersect — a conversation with Joseph Betancourt
An internist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Joseph Betancourt also runs their program on equity and community health. In this, the final entry in our four-interview exploration of race and clinical equity, Betancourt talks about the need for medical institutions to pay attention to what’s happening in their patients’ communities. To that end, MGH has a […]
April 26th, 2021
Podcast 277: Race and clinical equity — know your patients — a conversation with Karen Dorsey Sheares
Dr. Sheares talks about her experience with inequities. She believes that clinicians should aspire to be students of their patients as well as of the pathophysiology of the diseases their patients present with. Listen in. Running time: 20 minutes
April 18th, 2021
Podcast 276: Pay attention to the structural barriers that contribute to clinical inequity — Karol Watson
In this, our second conversation on race and clinical equity, Dr. Karol Watson of UCLA offers her observations on what she’s observed as a cardiologist trying to deal with treatment plans for patients who’ve lost their health insurance or have had to go to a plan that doesn’t cover what’s needed. She reminds us that tagging […]
September 3rd, 2010
Podcast 99: Blacks’ higher rate of stent thrombosis apparently has a genetic basis.
It was thought that the increased risk among blacks undergoing stenting had to do with factors such as comorbid conditions and socioeconomics. But in a study in Circulation, their rate of stent thrombosis was higher than non-blacks, even after adjusting for those factors (and despite the fact that as a group, black were more adherent […]
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