Flip the Script is your go-to podcast about health disparities, Hosted by Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, MD, MS, internal medicine resident at Brigham and Woman's Hospital. Max discusses societal and healthcare issues that disproportionately affect the health of minorities, including but not limited to racial and ethnic minorities, sexual & gender minorities, & religious minorities, on a national and global scale. These discussions are centered around the work of healthcare, public health, and health humanities professionals who dedicate their work in various ways to addressing health disparities
Max discusses with Professor Jonathan Metzl, MD, Ph.D., professor of Psychiatry and Sociology at Vanderbilt University, where he directs the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. The conversation covers his broad scholarship, beginning with his book "Protest Psychosis," and factors that shape the overdiagnosing of Black men with schizophrenia, medicine's attempts at medicalizing racism. Then they dovetail into his book "Dying of Whiteness" in relation to major events in 2021, including the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, the fight for (and resistance against) safe gun policies, equitable healthcare, and what it all means in our current political context.
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2 Aug 2021
No More Beds
In this episode, Max is joined by George Aumoithe, Ph.D., assistant professor of global health at Stony Brooke University, in the department of Africana Studies. They discuss his work on the effect of anti-inflationary economic policy and colorblind legal ideology on public hospitals, as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic, namely, hospital bed shortages and lack of access to critical care in disproportionately poor Black communities. They also take a look at what the future might hold with the Biden-Harris administration as the U.S. Listen to Flip the Script on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Leave us reviews, and support the pod via Anchor! https://anchor.fm/flip-the-script-max
16 Jul 2021
Worry About Infra-Redlining
Max is joined by Amy Moran-Thomas, PhD, associate professor of anthropology at MIT. They discuss current shortcomings in the FDA's medical devices approval process, with a sharp focus on pulse-oximeters, a device rendered particularly popular during the Pandemic. Studies have long shown that they do not detect low oxygen as accurately among people with darker skin, and yet, little has changed. Read more about Dr. Moran-Thomas' in-depth exploration of how pulse oximeters encode racial bias here: https://bostonreview.net/science-nature-race/amy-moran-thomas-how-popular-medical-device-encodes-racial-bias, and see the large clinical study which we refer to in the episode, published in the New England Journal of Medicine by a team from the University of Michigan: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2029240.
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