JAMA Editor Out Over Colleague's Racism Comments
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Dr. Howard Bauchner will step down as editor in chief of
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association and JAMA Network at the end of June, the American Medical Association announced Tuesday. Bauchner was previously on administrative leave, pending an association investigation into comments another
JAMA editor made denying that structural racism exists in medicine. “I remain profoundly disappointed in myself for the lapses that led to the publishing of the tweet and podcast,” Bauchner said in a statement. “Although I did not write or even see the tweet, or create the podcast, as editor-in-chief, I am ultimately responsible for them.”