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On Feb. 24, JAMA’s official Twitter account posted a message that read in part, “No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?” The message urged readers to listen to an episode of a JAMA podcast hosted by Edward Livingston, a top editor at the journal, in which, according to several news reports, he said, “Many people like myself are offended by the implication that we are somehow racist.”
The JAMA tweet went viral and it, along with the podcast discussion, provoked widespread indignation on social media and among research doctors, some of whom pledged to boycott JAMA by refusing to submit papers to the journal or provide peer review for its publications.
The Institute for Antiracism in Medicine, a nonprofit that promotes racial-equity issues, circulated an online petition calling for a formal review of Dr. Bauchner’s handling of the incident and asked for changes in the publication’s editorial priorities. The petition, which stopped short of demanding that Dr. Bauchner step down, garnered more than 9,000 signatures.
The podcast episode and the tweet have since been deleted. In place of the podcast on the JAMA website is a recording of Dr. Bauchner apologizing for the discussion. “Comments made in the podcast were inaccurate, offensive, and hurtful, and inconsistent with the standards of JAMA,” Dr. Bauchner said in the recording. “Racism and structural racism exist in the United States, and in healthcare.”
In a JAMA statement Tuesday, Dr. Bauchner said as top editor he was ultimately responsible for the incident, despite not having been involved in the production of either the podcast episode or the tweet. His departure is effective from June 30.
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I think that the mistake was in saying "that no physician is racist." Whoever wrote such a statement (and the article was not clear, just saying it appeared on JAMA's Twitter account, but that it was NOT from Dr. Bauchner) was almost unbelievably stupid -- and almost definitely wrong.
Yes, I edited it almost immediately, and I also see that you had already started a thread on this -- my apologies, and MODS, PLEASE DELETE THIS DUPLICATE THREAD!
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