Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Stanley Frencher Jr., MD, MPH
Stanley Frencher, Jr, MD, MPH is an assistant professor at the University of California Los Angeles and Director of Urology at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital.Is There a Doctor in the House? . . . Or the Senate?
Given the fervor of our most recent election, we reviewed a JAMA article published in 2004 highlighting the decreasing role and influence of physicians and surgeons in politics despite the increasing proportion of the GDP (16%) devoted to health care. Continue Reading …
African American Physicians and Organized Medicine: Contrition, Reconciliation, and Collaboration
Like the nation as a whole, organized medicine in the United States carries a legacy of racial bias and segregation that must acknowledged and understood. For more than 100 years, many state and local medical societies openly discriminated against black Continue Reading …