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Being an armchair critic is not that hard. Dan Johnson’s Feb. 3 Opinion piece criticizes CentraCare leadership for overreach in asking local city leaders for mask mandates in response to the swell of COVID cases in CentraCare facilities. He states that attempting political policy change is not the job of a health care provider and points to loss of credibility of CentraCare because of this request. Yes, many citizens are tired of wearing masks and can’t see the benefit this simple action could have.
By Marilyn Peitso, MD Minnesota Medical Association The Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) urges all Minnesotans to continue COVID-19 precautions to help slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect Minnesota children. The vulnerability of young Minnesotans became evident on April 26 when the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) reported the death of a first-grade student, a boy under the age of 10, due to complications from COVID-19.
All of us have them — biases and prejudices informed by our lived experiences. Physicians and other health care workers are no different. Yet far too often, those of us in health care fail to recognize our biases and, when baked into organizational policies and practices that have been historically and largely defined by privileged white people (and usually men), the result can be serious and even deadly to the patients we serve.
Congress is poised to overhaul the Affordable Care Act (informally known as Obamacare). The future of this overhaul is hazy, but it seems likely that access to insurance coverage and how health care is delivered in St Cloud and Central Minnesota could change dramatically in the coming months and years. As a pediatrician and member of the state’s largest advocacy group for doctors, the Minnesota Medical Association, I have a vested interest in these changes.
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