It has been quite a year thus far and in the middle of a world health crisis another more threatening crisis is occurring - the systemic racism that still occurs today and the inequalities, discrimination, violence and traumas that is happening based on the melanin of someone's skin.  As demonstrators all around the world topple over monuments to try and erase figures in history that have contributed to slavery - there is a sculpture I was fortunate enough to visit that I would like to remember today in honour and celebration of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still's 192nd birthday! It's a day for saluting the founder of osteopathic medicine who was also an active abolitionist in the American Civil War and served in the 9th Kanas Infantry as a hospital steward.  Dr. Still strongly believed in civil rights and wanted to have African Americans in his first formal osteopathic school in 1892. Tuition was also waived for African Americans but none applied, for which he felt bad. It wasn’t until 1921 that Meta L. Christy, DO, became the first black osteopath!  Dr. Still was a revolutionary not only with respect to his vision of a better system of health care not based on Symptomatology, but also in his anti-discrimination policy and beliefs to ensure that all qualified individuals, regardless of their race or sex, were given the opportunity to be osteopathic physicians - let's cheers to that! 🍻