Doctors should be required to wear body cameras to catch them being racist, a Yale University physician suggested recently.
Dr. Amanda Calhoun, described as an “expert in the mental health effects of anti-Black racism,” made the suggestion in a recent opinion piece for The Boston Globe. The post is hosted by the Globe through The Emancipator, a publication with Ibram Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research.
“If hospitals and medical institutions want to make good on those anti-racism statements made in 2020, prove it: Have health care professionals wear body cameras,” Dr. Calhoun wrote in the Globe. “As a patient, I would feel far more comfortable if they did. And as a doctor, I will volunteer to wear one first.”
Addressing the objections to patient privacy, Calhoun (pictured, with her husband) wrote that families “could consent to the release of body camera footage if they want to bring forward complaints of racism.”