Trauma Code

Dr. Oni Blackstock shares with the Trauma Code how the federal government's LCME is removing guidance on health equity for American medical schools as part of a larger assault on both black health outcomes and health education as a whole. Medical workers and institutions have a duty to push back and stand on principle in support of health equity research and education. We also love to our friends from Philadelphia and condolences for the end of the 76ers season.Music by Orquesta Baobab and Bahamadia

We talk to a rapid responder who witnessed the confrontation between the Bushwick community and immigration enforcement officers who injured a detainee and brought them to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York over the weekend.

We hear updates from Doctors Against Genocide partners in Gaza, Sudan and Congo.Music by Bad Bunny and Celia Cruz

We call independent journalist Daniel Montero from Belly of the Beast for updates from Havana. We also hear what representative Rashida Tlaib tells Doctors Against Genocide. Music from Los Aldeanos and Siba & Monkeyman.

We hear the latest on the Israeli military assault on civilians in Lebanon from Dr. Eveline Hitti from the American University in Beirut and Sarah Bitar shares the art of Love and Resistance in Brooklyn. RIP Asha Bhosle.

CUNY Sociologist Heba Gowayed talks about her book Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential as well as how the American Sociological Association has shut down discussion at its convention of genocide in Gaza or the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israeli institutions. All while listening to Heba's playlistMusic by DAM, Tootard and Ayonha