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Top Editor at JAMA to Step Down Amid Racial Reckoning Over a Podcast
“Although I did not write or even see the tweet, or create the podcast, as editor in chief, I am ultimately responsible for them”
Dr. Howard Bauchner
“Structural racism is an unfortunate term,” Dr. Livingston, who is white, said on the podcast. “Personally, I think taking racism out of the conversation will help. Many people like myself are offended by the implication that we are somehow racist.”
The podcast was promoted with a tweet from the journal that said, “No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?” Following widespread protest in the medical community, the journal took down the podcast and deleted the tweet.
The podcast that set the events in motion aired on Feb. 24 and did not include any Black researchers or experts on racism in medicine.
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