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“#Journal’s ‘app<\/a>alling’ racism podcast, tweet prompt outcry<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n A prominent medical journal’s provocative tweet was meant to prompt interest in a podcast on racism. Instead, the Twitter<\/a> post and the podcast stoked backlash and admonishment from the doctors’ group that publishes the journal.\n <\/p>\n

The tweet from the Journal of the American Medical Association<\/i> said in part, “No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?” It was promoting a podcast episode featuring two white doctors: a deputy journal editor and a physician who runs a New York City health system.<\/p>\n

They were discussing how structural racism worsens health outcomes and what health systems can do to address it, JAMA said in an online description.<\/p>\n

The episode, designed for doctors, was first posted<\/a> last week and was billed as a discussion for skeptics. It included comments that racism is illegal and a term that should be avoided because it evokes negative feelings.<\/p>\n

The journal later removed the tweet. Its top editor, Dr. Howard Bauchner, issued an apology<\/a> Thursday for the tweet and for portions of the podcast.<\/p>\n

Outcry continued Friday on Twitter. Some called the podcast “cringeworthy\u2033 and said physicians who have experienced racism should have been involved.<\/p>\n

The American Medical Association, which owns and publishes JAMA but has no editorial control over its content, tweeted <\/a> Thursday that the podcast “was wrong, false and harmful.” The association’s CEO, Dr. James Madara, said in a statement that “structural racism in health care and our society exists and it is incumbent on all of us to fix it.”<\/p>\n

The AMA’s chief equity officer, Dr. Aletha Maybank, who is Black, called<\/a> the JAMA tweet and podcast “absolutely appalling.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Brittani James, a Black Chicago physician who co-founded the Institute for Anti-Racism in Medicine, accused the journal<\/a> of “whitesplaining racism.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Uche Blackstock of Advancing Health Equity tweeted<\/a> that, “Yes, physicians can absolutely be racist”‘ and that JAMA should not have deleted the tweet. Her group works to confront racism in medicine.<\/p>\n

A journal spokeswoman said Friday that Bauchner would have no additional comment.\n <\/p>\n\n

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