Women and people of color often face bias and racism when seeking medical care. And even celebrities are not protected.

According to Dayna Bowen Matthew JD, Ph.D. author of Just Medicine, more than 83,000 people of color lose their lives annually because of implicit basis and unintentional racism while seeking health care.

Factor in statistics from John Hopkins University studies, including other sources of medical mistakes and potential exposure to non-fatal but costly life-changing errors. The figures increase from 250,000 to more than 400,000, depending on which study is cited.

Due diligence? Self-advocacy? Take responsibility? However fully one follows these ideals, the actions may not produce the expected results.

This little multicultural medical notebook is written from a consumer viewpoint, unlike many books for consumers written by doctors and other professionals.

Inspector Squirrel’s Multicultural Medical Notebook includes valuable information you won’t find in traditional personal health journals, such as …

1. An eye-opening article about people of color and prescription drugs.
2. Tips about fact-gathering information from medical experts.
3. Better anatomy illustrations that helps you show medical personnel where you are feeling pain.
4. What you should know but probably do not know about red flags and your health records.

Take the following true story. When a new patient repeatedly complained of lower arm pain, the health care provider noted the issue with a little minus sign added to the notation in the patient’s medical records. Meaning the healthcare provider made an error or did not believe the patient; because the dash was a minus sign indicating the injury was resolving.

Although the patient checked the medical records, the meaning of the little minus sign was unknown to the patient. But the sign would not be unknown to the other medical professional reading the patient’s records. The patient’s continued complaints were wrongly categorized as emotional.

Inspector Squirrel’s Multicultural Medical Notebook is inspired by firsthand experience and research with conventional and alternative care providers.

Use this multicultural medical notebook in three ways:

1. As a timesaving inside look at often overlooked issues while navigating the medical marketplace for even a seemingly superficial injury.
2. As a fact-gathering and record-keeping tool
3. As a supplementary lesson for independent health educators teaching adult or teen students.
   

   

Source

Kobo.com
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/inspector-squirrel-s-multicultural-medical-notebook

Singer, activist, and actor Harry Belafonte introduced Kennedy Center honoree 2013, Carlos Santana, and revealed an insightful musical history of how the iconic rock guitarist evolved his niche from childhood. But not before explaining how Carlos Santana blocked Belafonte’s musical success.

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While attending a degree program connected to a well-known California university in the mid-1990s, I opened the assigned history textbook one evening in class, flipped the pages to the week’s history chapter, and began reading the following paragraph.

“Occasionally, slaves from South Carolina tried to reach Spanish Florida, but most slave runaways merely wanted to visit friends or relatives or avoid their normal work routine for a few days or months.”

Stunned, all I could do was stare at the page as I tried to process what I had just read. Puzzled, I turned to the copyright page. I thought this text might be written in the 1950s or further back. But the copyright was current. So, I turned to a student seated nearby. I did not know her, but I said, “Could you read this?” And I pushed the textbook toward her. She read it, and I won’t repeat what she said.

Eight years after reading the textbook sentence, I sent it to a famous author and African American history professor. Recently, I looked at the citation notes closely for the first time. The textbook edition I read in class is missing from many online listings and could not be found on World Cat.

Wonder why.

The textbook was issued by a best-selling publisher that started in the early 1900s; more than a hundred years later, the 11^th edition will be published in August 2022.

According to Time magazine, one reason Black families have turned to homeschooling during the pandemic at three times the rate of other racial groups is because of the educational materials used in the educational system.

Writer William F. Spivy writes to educate about the potholes in history taught in traditional school systems.  One of his recent articles on Medium titled St Augustine: America’s Oldest City: What They Don’t Tell You in the Brochures is an eye-opening look that underscores some of the significant ways history is twisted other than textbooks.

Source: Abe Books.com

Sources

For Black Parents Resisting White-Washed History, Homeschooling Is an Increasingly Popular Option. Time Magazine, Katie Reilly, February 28, 2022
https://time.com/6151375/black-families-homeschooling/

A People and A Nation: A History of the United States, volume 1, fourth edition, 1994.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30893324068

St Augustine: America’s Oldest City: What They Don’t Tell You in the Brochures by William F. Spivy: https://medium.com/black-history-month-365/st-augustine-americas-oldest-city-604fdc693f7d

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Finding Your Niche Brochure 6×9 October 2022

Behind the scenes of Marvel’s superhero productions to Bruno Mars, Uptown Funk brings a smile, including a laugh-out-loud reaction to a  stop command and a sneeze.

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Source

Ramblin with Roger: a librarian’s life deconstructed: https://www.rogerogreen.com

Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind and Fire and Phil Collins of Genesis show the challenges in their “Easy Lover”  “video within a video, within a video,” while creating their 1980s production.

But as they practice singing and their choreography and search for show clothing, some may initially wonder how the men created this crossover hit, which they co-wrote with a third musician.

The “Easy Lover” video includes chuckle-out-loud moments.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkRKT6T0QLg?feature=oembed&w=1200&h=900]

The back story  of the unique 1980s song

Phil Collins, the drummer, became Genesis’s lead singer and began producing others. Earth Wind & Fire was one of Phil Collins’s favorite bands, so he agreed when asked to create EW&F band member Phillip Bailey’s first solo album.

But others were concerned that Collins’ influence would produce an album with a White sound. So Bailey hired bassist Nathan East for the background while Collins produced the song and played the drums. East was a third collaborator on the music. East ironically and thankfully suggested that the two men perform the song together; it was never intended to be a duet.

Both men sang over the ballpark, and the song was a hit with all groups, even with hip-hop lovers.
No one was sure how to classify it because it had a unique sound. Still does.

Twinsthenewtrend reacts to the audio version of “Easy Lover.”

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVWq5zg78i8?feature=oembed&w=1200&h=675]

Reference

Nathan East on the Writing Recording and Legacy of “Easy Lover”
We’ve talked to bassist Nathan East about a lot of the massive hits he’s played on, like “Get Lucky,” “Footloose,” and…www.allmusic.com

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Not since a lawyer had to explain to a judge during a remote courtroom session, “I am not a cat,” during rampant remote tech glitches in 2020, have I come across another funny tech piece.

But here’s an article from Harvard Business Review by Rae Ringle that underscores the importance of thinking before speaking and cutting out the use of buzz phrases and jargon when communicating.

Ringle  wants people to stop using one of the six phrases, such as “We’re building the plane while flying it.”  She writes, “If that’s the case,  your plane will crash.”

Source

Please Stop Using These Phrases in Meetings. Harvard Business Review. Rae Ringle. January 11, 2022:
https://hbr.org/2022/01/please-stop-using-these-phrases-in-meetings

A comic illustration of the importance of money management and self-employment.

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