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Host: Alyssa Yáx̱ Ádi Yádi London
Patients have better outcomes when they don’t have to confront cultural barriers. A 2020 study by Penn Medicine researchers found patients prefer medical professionals of the same race or ethnicity. But Native doctors and nurses are in short supply. We’ll hear about the importance of Native medical professionals and efforts to recruit more of them into the industry.
Guests:
Dr. Mary Owen (Tlingit) – director of the Center of American Indian and Minority Health at the University of Minnesota and the current president of the Association of American Indian Physicians
Kaydee McCray (Navajo) – fourth-year optometry intern
Dr. Jonathan Baines (Tlingit and Tsimshian) – family physician at the Mayo Clinic
Dr. Amy DeLong (Ho-Chunk) – family medicine and adolescent health physician for the Ho-Chunk Nation
Break 1 music: Our Autonomy (song) Klee Benally (artist) Appropriation (album)
Break 2 music: Dat One (song) The Delbert Anderson Trio (artist) MANITOU (album)
