It’s February. This is typically the time where the mentors of the Tour for Diversity in Medicine (T4D) are flooding your timelines and feeds with posts about the Tour, sharing stories and [...]
Being the tour’s photographer, I was tasked with the job of “making sure you show the young black men”, early in the tours. Thinking that it was just a balance of genders being [...]
I became a doctor by accident. At least that’s what I told myself. Growing up in a small town in Mississippi, I never dreamed about being a doctor and honestly, I don’t know anyone who [...]
As a black man, seeing another black man in medicine IS BELIEVING it could be you too. The most blaring problem is that there are too few black men in medicine currently, and the trend seems to [...]
I put my thinking cap on, and decided that I wanted to share the spectrum of emotions that we experience through our journeys. Without further adieu, I present: Being a Black Man in Medicine as [...]
The year is 2017 and I am the primary physician working in the Emergency Department at my primary site in Springfield, TN. The next available patient on the tracking board is a female patient [...]
Throughout my entire journey into medicine, I always seemed to take the route less traveled. One particular example would be my decision to apply to medical school. My story started off like many [...]
So my boys and I were talking on Groupme, discussing what it’s like to be a black man in medicine. We had all these different phrases that we felt spoke to our individual and collective [...]
The field of medicine is truly an aggregate of many disciplines and filled with the many minds it takes to carry out the dictates of our Hippocratic oath. How, though, does that specifically [...]
On Monday, November 27, 2017, Twitter will (hopefully) be swarmed with Black men who are physicians proudly sharing their journeys, struggles, victories, lessons learned and advice for the next [...]
