Several months ago, a local Maine publication broke the story of how members of the white supremacist group Proud Boys were meeting in a downtown Portland, Maine, pub since early 2021—and how the owners of the pub were more concerned about making money than whether or not hosting white supremacists would reflect poorly on them. …
Healthcare workers across the country have been protesting vaccine mandates and they almost couldn’t be more cliché. They claim they have no options, no choice. Now, I don’t care if it’s COVID deniers, homophobes, transphobes, racists or whichever brand new bigot is hot on the block, they all screech about the same damn thing: My …
Physicians, nurses, medical researchers, and other healthcare and life-sciences professionals are not saints. As human as anyone else, they individually and the arenas in which they work can be riddled with biases that range from racial microaggressions to outright bigotry. Medical science itself is frequently skewed by racism, as well as other factors like sexism …