Doctor from Salem makes waves with paper on racial bias in common medical device
Dr. Michael Sjoding (Courtesy photo)
As Michael Sjoding began caring for more Covid patients in the spring of 2020, he noticed something concerning.
Sjoding, who was born and raised in Salem, is now a doctor specializing in critical care pulmonology at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. The university hospital was caring for more Black patients moved from overflowing hospitals in Detroit, and Sjoding saw that the fingertip monitor used to measure…
