19. Esther Choo and the Equity Quotient

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gender and racial bias are pervasive across all aspects of society, medicine notwithstanding.  In this episode,</span> <strong>Esther Choo MD, MPH</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><a href= "https://twitter.com/choo_ek"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">@choo_ek</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">), a titan for the cause of gender and racial equity discusses: a rubric for deciding 'yes or no', single payer healthcare, why confining medical practice to the bedside can be an exercise in futility, sexism and racism in medicine, the wage gap, workforce vs. leadership demographics, managing overtly racist patients, and why the culture of medicine is ripe for sexual harassment.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode is brought to you by</span> <a href= "https://marmed.com/stimulus/"><strong>Mar-Med</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, makers of the industry leading and #1 selling Tourni-Cot digital tourniquet. What you may not know is that</span> <a href= "https://marmed.com/stimulus/"><strong>Mar-Med</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">also  makes a newly re-engineered balloon extractor for nasal foreign bodies, the one size fits all Uni-Cot digital tourniquet, and the Derma-Stent drain that greatly simplifies loop abscess procedures. I’ve used</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Mar-Med'</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">s products hundreds of times and can attest to their efficacy and simplicity of use. You can check out all of their products and get free samples of whatever you’d like to try at</span> <a href= "https://marmed.com/stimulus/"><strong>marmed.com/stimulus</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Who doesn’t love free samples, especially when it’s awesome stuff? </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;">We discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Esther’s first outward advo