Science
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A call for human-centric expertise in medical science.
As we return from the holiday break, I’m stepping into 2025 with renewed purpose. This year, I focus on expanding the conversations we’ve built around decolonizing science, reimagining health equity, and centering cultural healing. Last year, we explored the concept… Continue reading
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Testimonial Injustice in Healthcare: A Barrier to Patient Safety and Equity
In healthcare, communication is more than just exchanging words—it’s a matter of life and death. Patients depend on their healthcare providers to listen, believe, and act on their experiences. But for many, this basic expectation is undermined by testimonial injustice,… Continue reading
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Elizabeth Sankey’s Witches: an eery connection with women challenged with childbirth mental health.
Postpartum mental health challenges are often hidden behind societal expectations of joy and fulfillment. Conditions like postpartum psychosis and postpartum depression affect many new mothers, bringing with them fear, disconnection, and overwhelming struggles that go unspoken. Postpartum depression impacts 1… Continue reading
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Decolonizing Science Through the Humanities: Healing Lessons from the Wereldmuseum – An insightful patient journey.
The artificial divide between the sciences and the humanities is often overstated, particularly when addressing colonial legacies. While science has traditionally focused on empirical inquiry, the humanities—especially museums and the arts—offer critical lessons in healing from the wounds of colonialism… Continue reading
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“Commemorating the Berlin Conference: Division, Exploitation, and Western Science’s Complicity — A Call for Transforming Global Healthcare”.
Today marks the anniversary of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, a pivotal event that shattered the sovereignty of the African continent in the continuation of a narcissistic enterprise that aimed to transform the world so it could reflect Europe’s grandiose… Continue reading
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Food for thought: Moving Beyond “Patient-Focused” to “Patient-Engaged” Science
🧠 Food for thought: Moving Beyond “Patient-Focused” to “Patient-Engaged” Science 🔎 Patient-focused approaches, seen in the traditional top-down investigational model, can sometimes treat patients as subjects of care, missing the critical human element of shared decision-making and cultural context. 👥… Continue reading
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🌍 International Mental Health Day: Centering Marginalized Voices in the Mental Health Conversation
Today, October 10th is International Mental Health Day. In 2024, the focus is on the workplace.I am grateful that my professional place provides mental health resources to support its dedicated workforce’s diverse experiences and needs. As an African descendant, Asian-raised… Continue reading
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From expert-centric Western science to patient and authentic humanity’s self-empowerment: a thought-provoking journey. (Bonus Part 4)
Chapter 4: “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou. In 1837, during the golden age of the physician-scientist, ten years before Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis proposed his… Continue reading
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From expert-centric Western science to patient and authentic humanity’s self-empowerment: a thought-provoking journey. (Part 1)
The first chapter will delve into the overlooked intersection of expert-centric perception, ego, science’s race theory, eugenics, and European colonization seen from a human and patient-centric perspective. Continue reading
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Science decoloniality 101: Dispelling the skin mythology of Western science’s magical thinking
The lack of critical thinking and cultural self-reflection in Western science knowledge about humankind is one of the most overlooked harms to patients. Skin cancer is a poignant example of how Eurocentric Western healthcare design feeds patient inequities through a… Continue reading
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