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<\/a>Antisemitism in Healthcare Is a Public Health Crisis \u2014 and Must Be Treated as One<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nSara Colb and Miri Bar-Halpern<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n While healthcare providers pledge to\u00a0\u201cdo no harm,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0that oath is being violated as antisemitism seeps into the very spaces meant to embody compassion and healing. This was the warning issued by Dr. Jacqueline Hart, who organized a medical conference on this issue, and emphasized that antisemitism in medicine endangers both patients and practitioners.<\/span><\/p>\n At the conference, titled\u00a0\u201c<\/em>Addressing Antisemitism in Healthcare,\u201d\u00a0a Jewish medical student described classmates who erased her from social media groups when they learned she was Jewish, and chalked the names of Hamas \u201cmartyrs\u201d (those who brutally murdered Jewish men, women, and children) outside the school on the anniversary of October 7.<\/span><\/p>\n Other Jewish medical students were labeled\u00a0\u201ccolonizers,\u201d \u201coppressors,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cbloodthirsty Zionists\u201d<\/i>\u00a0by their peers. A genetic counselor who petitioned to stop her professional association from platforming a speaker with a history of antisemitic rhetoric received death threats from colleagues, and had to walk into work with a police escort. One Jewish resident recalled a patient who sneered,\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t trust the Jew to treat me,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0while the supervising physician said nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n Jewish patients within the mental health sphere are experiencing what\u2019s known as\u00a0traumatic invalidation\u00a0\u2014 the denial or dismissal of one\u2019s pain, experience, and humanity. Research shows that when people are silenced, minimized, or erased in this way, the psychological impact can be as damaging as other recognized traumas, leaving deep scars of mistrust, hypervigilance, and isolation.<\/span><\/p>\n And when bias permeates hospitals and clinics, everyone is at risk. Patients hesitate to disclose important personal information, practitioners experience significant harm, and the public\u2019s faith in medicine erodes.<\/span><\/p>\n For these reasons, antisemitism in healthcare must be treated as a public-health crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n America\u2019s great medical hubs \u2014\u00a0Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Seattle,\u00a0Atlanta, and others \u2014 have long set the pace for clinical innovation and high-quality care. Now they must lead again. Public and private leaders within healthcare must mobilize around confronting antisemitism head-on.<\/span><\/p>\n For example, longitudinal studies should be funded and conducted on the impact of antisemitism on patient outcomes, workforce retention, and mental health, and to develop antisemitism-reduction interventions \u2014 just as we do for smoking cessation or infection control.<\/span><\/p>\n Policies and practices that illuminate and address the issue must be implemented, including adding antisemitism metrics to existing patient-safety and employee-climate surveys; requiring academic medical centers and health systems to track and publicly report antisemitic incidents; and posting a\u00a0Patients\u2019 Bill of Rights\u00a0that explicitly guarantees a care environment free from discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n Healthcare facilities should review their dress codes and revise policies to prohibit staff from wearing political attire that could intimidate patients or colleagues. This will help to ensure that treatment environments remain safe and welcoming for all.<\/span><\/p>\n Mandatory training and education are needed, including integrating antisemitism education into cultural-competence curricula for students, residents, and continuing medical education for practicing clinicians.<\/span><\/p>\n Facilities should create anonymous reporting hotlines \u2014 either individually or collectively \u2014 where patients and workers can report antisemitic or other bias-related incidents without fear of retaliation, and facilities should also ensure there are penalties for retaliation.<\/span><\/p>\n Mental health services must be available for patients and health care workers who experience discriminatory treatment. Further, regulations should be reviewed and revised to guarantee that clinical environments remain free from antisemitic bias and other forms of hate.<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, medical schools\u2019 LCME accreditation and hospital Joint Commission status should be made dependent on having an antisemitism-prevention program or training requirement.<\/span><\/p>\n Medicine\u2019s social contract is built on safety, dignity, and trust. When Jewish clinicians who report antisemitism are told to\u00a0\u201ckeep politics out of the hospital,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0or Jewish patients fear revealing their identity, that contract is broken. The cure is neither complicated nor optional: study the problem, implement interventions, train the workforce, and enforce standards \u2014 just as we have done with other threats to public health.<\/span><\/p>\n What\u2019s at stake is not only the well-being of Jewish patients and professionals, but the integrity of our healthcare system itself.<\/span><\/p>\n Sara A. Colb<\/strong> is the Director of Advocacy for ADL\u2019s National Affairs division. Dr. Miri Bar-Halpern is the Director of Trauma Training and Services at Parents for Peace and a Lecturer in Psychology at Harvard Medical School, where she supervises psychology interns and psychiatry residents.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Antisemitism in Healthcare Is a Public Health Crisis \u2014 and Must Be Treated as One Sara Colb and Miri Bar-Halpern Illustrative: Medical staff work at the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ward at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, in Jerusalem January 31, 2022. REUTERS\/Ronen Zvulun While healthcare providers pledge to\u00a0\u201cdo no harm,\u201d\u00a0that oath is being violated as antisemitism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126307"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126324,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126307\/revisions\/126324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Illustrative: Medical staff work at the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ward at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, in Jerusalem January 31, 2022. REUTERS\/Ronen Zvulun<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nA National Call to Action<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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