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Medical journal retracts article due to "racist characterizations"
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/909170?nlid=128199_1521&src=WNL_mdplsfeat_190222_mscpedit_wir&uac=99557HY&spon=17&impID=1891680&faf=1"After facing sharp criticism from readers, the journal Neurology has retracted an essay about a patient encounter that it acknowledged "contains racist characterizations."
The article, "Lucky and the Root Doctor," reported on "Reggie, a 60-year-old black man referred because of muscle weakness and suspected inflammatory myopathy." It described Reggie's wife as "a roly-poly woman" whose "abundant rolls of fat jiggled as she giggled."
The piece, originally published online February 12, went on: "I once shared a table at a fried chicken fast food establishment with a nice African American lady. Immensely enjoying her fries, she sat with the shaker in one chubby fist and liberally salted each individual fry."
Yesterday, in a retraction notice, the journal said that the article "should not have been published. We sincerely apologize for our error." ....(more at link)
