Medical Journal, JAMA Forces Out Doctor For Questioning ‘Structural Racism’
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A doctor has been forced out of his position at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) after expressing a desire to ameliorate racial disparities and to better understand the concept of “structural racism,” but asking whether there might be a more productive term for it.
Edward H. Livingston resigned after being accused of hosting “a harmful podcast” that “minimized the effects of systemic racism in health care and questioned its profound impact on millions of people across the county.”
JAMA, the world’s most widely-circulated medical journal, is published by the American Medical Association (AMA) and also produces podcasts and video reports. The doctors’ group has no editorial control over JAMA’s content. Livingston was JAMA’s deputy editor for clinical reviews and education.
Where medicine’s concerned, Edward H. Livingston recently made his own position clear.
Kinda.
As reported by The Daily Wire, the doctor hosted a February podcast entitled “Structural Racism for Doctors What is It?”
The podcast was sponsored by the Journal of the American Medical Association the world’s most widely circulated medical journal, for which Edward was deputy editor of clinical reviews and education.
JAMA’s published by the American Medical Association, which nonetheless has no editorial control.
During the webcast, Edward chatted up fellow white Jewish man and JAMA Internal Medicine Editor/NYC Health+ Hospitals CEO Dr. Mitchell Katz.