HIM PE 08 23 2023 DEI Weekly Wrap Up 33: Bad Hair Day or Renaissance X-ray?

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A University medical student and radiologist want to educate the medical community on these hairstyles to improve care given to Black patients. Angela Udongwo, third-year medical student, and radiologist Hillel Maresky are on a mission to improve how physicians interpret the radiological scans of Black patients with braids, twists, and locs.

 Links:

Doctors misidentified Black hairstyles as illness, growths on scans (inquirer.com)    

Temple Cardiothoracic Radiology on X: "Leading the way in identification of Black Hair versus pathology! @TempleUniv @TempleRadRes @TempleRADs @TempleLung https://t.co/9pBg50Na3J" / X (twitter.com)  

2021 survey conducted by the American Medical Association:

Active Physicians by Sex and Specialty, 2021 | AAMC       

The CROWN Act Law:

https://www.epi.org/publication/crown-act/#:~:text=The%20CROWN%20Act%20is%20law,Texas%2C%20Virginia%2C%20and%20Washington       

‘So how should I wear it?’: Black job candidate says employer called her natural hair unprofessional during interview (msn.com)

 https://www.latest-hairstyles.com/black/twist-braids.html

https://www.hadviser.com/types-of-braids/

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/beauty-hair/hair/g12041031/braids-twists-hair/

https://www.hadviser.com/bantu-knots/

https://www.hadviser.com/twist-hairstyles/

https://www.hadviser.com/types-of-braids/

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