Oncology Grand Rounds

07/15/2023

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08/25/2022

Global Breast Cancer Awareness Conference 2022

02/25/2022

Oncologist
Dr Lewis Banda

Trained in South Africa

Practicing in Zambia

02/20/2022

Oncology Grand Rounds 2022
Black Women in Oncology
Black history Month
Women of Magnitude
By Dr Thandeka Mazibuko Dr.
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We are live talking about Women’s Health in 2022
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Host : Dr Thandeka Mazibuko
Guest : Dr Sha Shahveh

09/05/2021

Posted • A man was crying in my corridor and smelt like rotten meat. His lesions with and drooling like a tap. I stoped and ask how can I help him.

He was told he smelt too much by my colleagues, they chased him out of the room refused to treat him , mark up was done and consent signed

ganged up against him. He and 2 security guards begged me for help, I still have his letters of complaint.

The patient told me he travelled 5 hours by car to get to this , I took a look at his lesions I knew that radiotherapy would help dry up his lesions, his looks good enough to be given therapy and he had already signed a consent

I opted to go against the decision of 8 who treated a unethically , I changed the decision not to treat based on his disability as my had written on his chart , I Admitted him, bought him food and he was treated. A new independent from Bloemfontein approved my plan.

I was punished by my supervisor for treating a that he wanted not to treat. I reported to , and , SAMA , they did nothing.

The illtreatment of smelling patients due to related in their bodies is unbearable.

08/30/2021

Posted • just imagine if i never tired
Dont give up

08/29/2021

Hiw can you make your work environment welcoming to all ? How many of color on your Dept ? Why?

08/29/2021

Kindness is all we need in the workplace

08/29/2021

Have Things Changed at All?

I'd like to highlight some recent instances of racism particularly toward my Black female physician colleagues, which signify that little has changed. One of my colleagues faced such significant racism that it cost her her life.

During our nation's reckoning with racism in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, we saw medicine take up the mantle of addressing racism and inequity. During the same time, several of my colleagues were being forced out of their positions in their respective institutions. Princess Dennar, MD, was forced out of her role as residency program director of the internal medicine and pediatrics residency program at Tulane Medical School. Aysha Khoury, MD, MPH, was forced out of her role at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. Finally, before she died, Susan Moore, MD, a family physician who documented her fight with COVID, said that racism had affected her care. As Black women in medicine, we are undervalued and often face significant adversity as we try to raise our voice to fight the challenges we must navigate.

Medicine is hard enough. When you are a Black woman in medicine, hard becomes nearly impossible.

What Should Be Done to Fight Racism in Medicine?

So, what are we supposed to do? If you don't eat, live, and breathe as a Black woman in medicine, how can you possibly empathize and/or work to change the current narrative. First, I ask you to do a deep dive into your own biases against your colleagues who have worked tremendously hard and often jumped over significantly greater hurdles than the majority physicians to be here. Have you taken the Harvard Implicit Association Test to see if you have biases against your Black colleagues? Have you completed an objective evaluation of promotion and pay parity for your colleagues who happen to be from underrepresented groups, particularly those with intersectional identities (i.e., Black and woman)?

I am a Black woman physician scientist with five degrees. I have completed two residencies and two fellowships. I've published over 100 peer reviewed articles. I have given over 300 lectures in the U.S. and worldwide.

08/29/2021

I was the first class of the Medical College of Georgia School of , a founded in 1828. When the historian of the university found out about my election as class president, she was thrilled and invited me to tour the archives of our medical school. On our tour, I quickly noticed that there was one Black gentleman in the back of all the early medical school pictures. As my medical school was in the antebellum South, I asked the historian, one of the first female graduates of the medical school, who this gentleman was. She seemed thrilled by my inquiry. She responded that this was none other than Grandison Harris, a slave purchased by the anatomy and physiology department for the sole purpose of robbing Black grave sites so that the white students would have bodies on which to learn anatomy. This was appalling, but unfortunately, it wasn't that surprising. As a Black woman, I knew that my Blackness often would define me. It was at the age of three, that I woke to the Ku Klux Klan burning a cross on my family's lawn in the suburbs of Atlanta. I have been equipped to know that I would be judged not by my value and worth, but by the color of my skin.

I asked the historian if Harris's contributions to the early education of my predecessors had ever been acknowledged. She stated they had not. As president of the first-year class, I felt it was my duty to acknowledge this gentleman and his contributions. One of the pivotal events of the first-year medical school is the cadaver memorial ceremony, and I thought this would be the ideal forum to acknowledge Harris. When I brought this up with the other 17 class officers, they resisted. "Why bring up our dirty laundry?" they asked. After my decision to acknowledge him, I faced significant backlash. In most classes I attended after this decision, I had random items thrown at me. My classmates went on to publish an anonymous newsletter that talked about my Black features: the size of my nose, my rear, and the contrast of my teeth with my skin color.

08/29/2021

Racism in Medicine Is Alive and Well
— Are you a part of the problem or will you be part of the solution?

by Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA
August 3, 2021

My Experience With Racism in Medicine

I started my medical career almost 20 years ago as a non-traditional medical student. After completing my undergraduate degree, I went on to complete my master's in public health and began my work career at the American Cancer Society, the CDC, and a r**e crisis center in the Atlanta area. I felt truly ready to embark upon medical school so I could achieve my lifelong dream of becoming a physician. Never one to shy away from a challenge, when I began medical school, I decided to run for president of the medical school class. When I announced my run, I was approached by a classmate who stated, "Why don't you just run for social chair? I think you're very social, but I'm not sure I see you as president." I was not sure what he meant when he said this but I quickly learned in the following months. While my bid for class president was successful, it came with its own burdens.

08/29/2021

is a safe space where discussions are welcoming everyone , every member of the society . We expect all to treat everyone with kindness . Be sensitive to others. No one is better than the other

08/29/2021

Oluwadamilola T. Oladeru, MD, MA
Dr. Oladeru and her team are studying cancer care in the federal prison system by measuring the cancer incidence and mortality, characterizing the utilization of radiation treatment, describing patterns of disease presentation and disparities in access to care, and developing an integrated value-based model for cancer care delivery. Dr. Oladeru was the first ever James D. Cox Resident's Research Award Winne

08/25/2021

New article: The perils of generalization: Rethinking breast cancer screening guidelines for young women of color link.paperbirds.me/S6G78N