Academic hazing culture killed Dr. Nakita Mortimer
“Say her name,” “She didn’t deserve this,” and “The system failed you” were the sentiments expressed on social media by resident physicians and trainees in medicine on the death of Dr. Nakita Mortimer, an advocate, mentor, physician trainee union organizer, and Black woman resident physician who tragically ended her life on May 26, 2023.
This narrative is all too common within medicine’s ivory tower, as suicide is the Read more…
