We find that a greater number of racially concordant medical encounters explains some of our findings. But we also find notable reductions in racial health disparities resulting from certain spillovers / community-level effects from diversifying the provider workforce. (5/5)
In clinical settings where patients play a less determinative role in shaping the relevant outcomes—e.g., emergency care—we find a weaker link between provider racial diversity and racial health disparities. (4/5)
Is there a causal link between the racial diversity of health care providers and racial health disparities?
For chronic-disease patients where the provider-patient relationship is critical—including trust and communication between these parties—we find a very strong link. (3/5)
Years back, Jon and I set out to contribute to the racial concordance / healthcare literature. We realized that the strategy we settled upon was better suited to answer a broader, surprisingly less studied, but ultimately policy-relevant question: (2/5)
Very excited to see this finally coming out in RESTUD! (1/5)
Excited to share a new open-access article with @benckrick.bsky.social @jonpetkun.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social, "Civilian Harm & Military Legitimacy" www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... This project started in 2018 Mosul, Iraq’s 2nd largest city, in the aftermath of a 9-month battle … 1/7
Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.
The brutal handcuffing of Senator Padilla is an affront to democracy. I’m joining House Democrats to march to Senator Thune’s office and to demand that he protect his Colleagues from this out-of-control authoritarian onslaught.
I’ve long suggested this research may be relevant to proposals aimed at elevating the role of clinical practice guidelines in med mal. The Restatement’s approach is in the spirit of prior proposals to give safe harbors for compliance with clinical practice guidelines.
Interesting developments with the Restatement and the negligence standard in medical malpractice cases. This hits close to home for me as much of my early work showed how physician behavior is sensitive to the negligence standard.
Meme: top picture is a city on fire with the caption “The world right now.” Bottom picture is Will Ferrell in an Eagle’s jersey yelling “Go Birds!!!!!!”
The mood in Philly this weekend
A White Christmas at Alta and Snowbird. Some skiing and snowshoeing.
My new working paper with @benckrick.bsky.social & @jonpetkun.bsky.social on the relationship between civilian harm and perceptions of military legitimacy after the battle of Mosul in Iraq based on survey, satellite, and interview data for the Households in Conflict Network: hicn.org/working-pape...
