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Heeding the happiness call, why should faculty mental health be taken more seriously
The NIH Advisory Committee to the Director Working Group on Diversity, set up in response to an NIH report about diversity in biomedical-research workforce, endorsed the subgroup’s recommendations after the publication of the 66-page report last month. Its three co-chairs include Lisa Iezzoni, a health-services researcher at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and Bonnielin…
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These doctors do not want patients with disabilities.
Lisa Iezzoni, a professor of medicine at Harvard University, has said that she heard the same story during research with hundreds of people who have disabilities: Health care that was substandard. Protected by anonymity, only first names and nicknames were used. Iezzoni added that groups of eight to 10 doctors began talking. The US National…