Work & Industry Focus
Doctors and Dentists Account for 27 Percent of $1.6 Trillion in Health Care
Revenue
Physician’s offices accounted for $330 billion in revenue in 2006, while the
dental profession made up another $87 billion of the $1.6 trillion in revenue of
the health care and social assistance sector, according to a U.S. Census Bureau
report
Howard Surgeon Calls for More Black Organ Donors
By Nicole C. Edwards,
Black College Wire
Dr. Clive O. Callender, chairman of the department of surgery at Howard University Hospital and
founder of the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program, discusses donor
shortages
The Cultural Challenges of Death
By Viji Sundaram, New America Media
The Asian and Latino family can often determine treatment for their
loved one, and even on how he should be allowed to die
Diverse Talent Recognizes Pharma’s Efforts to Create More Diverse Workforce
By
Kristin Rand, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Wyeth's Director of Education Strategy in the Professional Education Support Department discusses
the trends attracting diverse students and professionals towards the healthcare industry generally,
and to hold a better opinion of pharma and biotech companies as potential employers
National Medical
Association Elects New Leadership
NMA Release
Nelson L. Adams, M.D. as 108th president of association for physicians of African
descent
Employment Outlook: Top
Fields for Job Hunters
By Sarah E. Needleman, CareerJournal.com
Healthcare, technology, and corporate finance and
accounting ramping up for 2007
So, You Want to Be a Doctor?
By Calvin Bruce, IMDiversity Careers
It can certainly be one of the most gratifying occupations, but becoming a
physician it isn't easy
U.S. Virgin Islands seeks RNs
By IMDiversity staff and release material
Hospitals in convenient, diverse, English-speaking, but often-overlooked
U.S. islands lure nurses with the
question: Why not work in paradise?
What's Important to You in a Career Path?
By Laura Lorber and Dana Mattioli, CareerJournal.com
Wondering what healthcare jobs might be for you? Career snapshots
can help choose a career based on your values.
Harvard’s
Reede: Sustainable Scientist Pipeline Needs "Creative Collaboration"
By
Carla Garnett,, NIH Record
Med School's Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership gives Diggs Lecture
What Do Native College Students Want in a Career?
By the IMDiversity Career Center Staff
Survey of UGs and MBAs finds Healthcare and Gov't/Public Service tied as top
career picks; work/life balance, opportunities to provide service and extend
education, highest priorities
Audrey Penn: Just Do It
By Nancy Touchette, NIH
Profile: The deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke (NINDS) combines intellectual curiosity and a love of people over a
distinguished career in research and the treatment of people with neurological
disorders.
Through the
Eyes of a Young Army Nurse: The Iraq War Wounded
By Ben Hamamato, Pacific News Service
A young Korean-American Army nurse stationed at the
Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., talks about caring for U.S.
soldiers wounded in Iraq, their attitude toward the war, and Army life.
Career Paths at
Roche
By Martha Ture, IMDiversity
An interview with Frank Griffith, brand director for multicultural health
care marketing at Roche, reveals the importance of working hard, playing
hard, and mentoring when climbing the ladder of success.
Making International Recruiting Work for Both Workers and Employers
By Professor K.E. Supriya, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Cultural education helps healthcare recruiter connect to India nurses amidst
dire shortage
Community Focus
The Cultural Challenges of
Death
By Viji Sundaram, New America Media
In America, where individualism is celebrated, doctors tend to treat death and
illness as a personal matter. But in Asian and Latino communities the family
often determines what treatment should be administered to their loved one, and
even on how he should be allowed to die.
The Coming of Age of Multicultural Medicine
By Gail McBride, Public Library of Science
Feature examines the U.S. healthcare industry's recognition, concern and
solutions surrounding racial and ethnic disparities in medical research and
treatment
Next Generation of Native
American Medical Researchers Goes to Harvard
By Jennifer K. Loukissas, NIH Record
Partnerships looks to encourage Native students to pursue studies, careers in
science and biomedical research
Report:
A New National Health Care Disgrace
By Hilary Abramson, Pacific News Service
Few immigrants know they have a right to a free professional medical interpreter
when they see a doctor. Many legal and healthcare advocates charge that the Bush
administration wants to keep it that way.
Translation
Trouble: Children May Be Barred from Interpreting for Parents
By Thuy Ngo, New America Media
A young Vietnamese American says that legislation that would prevent children
from interpreting at the doctor's office or hospital is a bad idea. When she
translated for her mother as a child she often found the task challenging and
frightening -- but, she asks, what other option is there?
Disabilities More
Challenging on Remote Reservations
By Daniel Kraker, VoA News
Native Americans are more likely than other U.S. ethnic groups to have a
physical disability. But on remote reservations like Pine Ridge, SD and the
Navajo Nation in AZ, the disabled and their care providers face challenges not
seen in other parts of the country.
UCLA Inaugural Conference Looks at the Future of Asian Pacific American Health
By Martha Nakagawa, Pacific Citizen Assistant Editor
How bad data use and political battles threaten quality healthcare
Health: Asians Get Depressed, Too
By M. Thang, Sampan
Studies examine generational differences, and differences among U.S.-born
and immigrations, in rates
of depression and substance abuse; many cases go undiagnosed
Be a
Doctor: Learning to Say No to My Immigrant Parents
By Ophelia Young, Pacific News Service
For a young Burmese American, intense pressure from her immigrant parents to go
into medicine led first to cheating and later to independence and the discovery
of her own goals.
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