The Work Is All Around Us: Health Equity in Anesthesiology - From Local to Regional to International

Features| February 2021 The Work Is All Around Us: Health Equity in Anesthesiology - From Local to Regional to International Samuel Percy, MD; Samuel Percy, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Bunmi Okunlola, MD; Bunmi Okunlola, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Elliot Wollner, MBBS, MPH; Elliot Wollner, MBBS, MPH Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Edward Medina, MD; Edward Medina, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Michael S. Lipnick, MD; Michael S. Lipnick, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Fred Bulamba, MBChB Fred Bulamba, MBChB Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor February 2021, Vol. 85, 23–32. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000733848.22740.c5 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Samuel Percy, Bunmi Okunlola, Elliot Wollner, Edward Medina, Michael S. Lipnick, Fred Bulamba; The Work Is All Around Us: Health Equity in Anesthesiology - From Local to Regional to International. ASA Monitor 2021; 85:23–32 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000733848.22740.c5 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: health equity Despite an overwhelming interest from anesthesiology residents in the United States to participate in global health, too often global health outreach in anesthesiology is misconstrued as being synonymous with “mission trips” to provide clinical care (J Clin Anesth 2012;24:38-43). This reflects an outdated and inadequately decolonized understanding of global health within our field, and we must shed the misperception that global health is something that is only done elsewhere to serve communities other than our own. COVID-19 has laid bare the fact that inequities and the structural violence that holds them in place are as relevant in wealthy countries as they are in less economically advanced parts of the world. The deep roots of these inequities, from systemic racism to capitalism, have a profound impact on the care anesthesiologists provide and on the perioperative outcomes of our patients (BMJ Glob Heal 2020;5:e003394). Anesthesiologists have a role... You do not currently have access to this content.