Stories by Jennifer Tsai

Jennifer Tsai is an emergency medicine physician in New Haven, Conn.

George Floyd’s Autopsy and the Structural Gaslighting of America

The weaponization of medical language emboldened white supremacy with the authority of the white coat. How will we stop it from happening again?

Anyone who’s been hospitalized has probably asked this question—and probably never found out

They’re a story about racism

And stop letting hospital security guards carry guns; there are better ways to keep patients and staff safe

The culture of the Football Industrial Complex is a public health risk, but we aren’t treating it like one

Rather than a risk factor, it’s better conceptualized as a risk marker of vulnerability, bias or systemic disadvantage

More students are coming from marginalized groups, but when they arrive they’re often told to hide what makes them different

When I applied for medical school, I knew I was signing up for hard work—but I had not expected this

The assumption that health disparities are caused by race rather than racism permeates many organizations, including the NIH

A medical student notes how the white coat can normalize an exceptional amount of violence