This week, Dr. Meredith Pittman (@merepitt) speaks with Dr. Kevin Simon (@DrKMSimon), a psychiatrist at Boston Children's Hospital, about the role that structural racism plays in everyday encounters between physicians and patients, trainees and educators, and physician colleagues. They discuss the way that COVID-19 has highlighted race-based disparity, and Dr. Simon gives advice for dealing with kids during a pandemic and quarantine. 

Links to articles, essays, and books referenced in the audio:

How to Engage with our Black and Brown patients: 

https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/224419/depression/how-can-we-better-engage-black-men-patients

Myths about Black Patients: 

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/03/30/1516047113.abstract 

Health Disparities for our Black Patients: 

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-racial-disparities-pain-reduction-minority.html

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/p0905-racial-ethnic-disparities-pregnancy-deaths.html

Discrminiation in medical training: 

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1915891 and

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768354 and

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/06/18/racism-doctor-harvard-medicine-training-tafadzwa-muguwe

Discrminiation as an attending: 

https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/16/black-doctors-leaving-faculty-positions-academic-medical-centers/

https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/01/structural-racism-is-why-im-leaving-organized-psychiatry/ 

Implicit Bias:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/making-people-aware-of-their-implicit-biases-doesnt-usually-change-minds-but-heres-what-does-work

https://gender.stanford.edu/news-publications/gender-news/why-does-john-get-stem-job-rather-jennifer

Books:

https://bookshop.org/books/the-protest-psychosis-how-schizophrenia-became-a-black-disease/9780807001271

https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-be-an-antiracist/9780525509288