24 min
Episode 155: Uncovering Racial Disparities in Healthcare The EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
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This week’s episode dives into racial disparities in healthcare and the field of urology, with a focus on prostate and bladder cancer. Jonathan and Samuel Washington, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA, discuss equality and equity in healthcare, uncovering how racial disparities affect the diagnosis and treatment of urological tumours, particularly in African American men. The pair also speak about which groups are more at risk of experiencing adverse outcomes, the changes needed to ensure better care is available to these patients, and how racial disparities affect medical education.
Use the following timestamps to navigate the topics discussed in this episode:
(00:00)-Introduction
(01:58)-Inspiration which led Washington to work in urologic oncology
(02:42)-“Urologic personality” traits
(04:01)-Machine-learning algorithms in estimating occurrence of lymph node cancer
(06:26)-Dietary and lifestyle factors influencing patient outcomes
(08:06)-Healthcare disparities in treating genitourinary diseases
(09:45)-Changes needed to make outcomes equivalent for patients of different races
(12:52)-Societal and political factors interacting with healthcare
(15:04)-Socioeconomic factors impacting healthcare use after bladder removal
(16:59)-Equity and equality in healthcare: health literacy and shared decision-making
(18:42)-Tailoring patient communications in prostate cancer screening
(20:00)-Partner-supported treatment decisions
(21:03)-Racial and ethnic differences in medical student training
(22:23)-Three wishes for the future of healthcare
This week’s episode dives into racial disparities in healthcare and the field of urology, with a focus on prostate and bladder cancer. Jonathan and Samuel Washington, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA, discuss equality and equity in healthcare, uncovering how racial disparities affect the diagnosis and treatment of urological tumours, particularly in African American men. The pair also speak about which groups are more at risk of experiencing adverse outcomes, the changes needed to ensure better care is available to these patients, and how racial disparities affect medical education.
Use the following timestamps to navigate the topics discussed in this episode:
(00:00)-Introduction
(01:58)-Inspiration which led Washington to work in urologic oncology
(02:42)-“Urologic personality” traits
(04:01)-Machine-learning algorithms in estimating occurrence of lymph node cancer
(06:26)-Dietary and lifestyle factors influencing patient outcomes
(08:06)-Healthcare disparities in treating genitourinary diseases
(09:45)-Changes needed to make outcomes equivalent for patients of different races
(12:52)-Societal and political factors interacting with healthcare
(15:04)-Socioeconomic factors impacting healthcare use after bladder removal
(16:59)-Equity and equality in healthcare: health literacy and shared decision-making
(18:42)-Tailoring patient communications in prostate cancer screening
(20:00)-Partner-supported treatment decisions
(21:03)-Racial and ethnic differences in medical student training
(22:23)-Three wishes for the future of healthcare
24 min