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#MedRacism continuing to uphold the status quo.
When we say minoritized and racialized people in medicine, regardless of position, are afraid to speak up because of #retaliation,
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 is what we mean.
When we say minoritized and racialized people in medicine, regardless of position, are afraid to speak up because of #retaliation,
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 is what we mean.
Academia will destroy someone’s career and livelihood before they even think about becoming introspective or take any responsibility for their bias and racism.
Dr. @ayshakhoury does not deserve this. Her students don’t deserve to lose their teacher. And her community doesn’t deserve losing a good physician.
Does it have to take a national movement against racism for the discrimination BIPOC women face in medicine to be taken seriously?
Does it have to take a national movement for “all these disparities women face in the workplace are worse for intersectional women” to move from a one-liner in #DEI work to the forefront and for #SystemicRacism to be relevant in the women in medicine movement?
When Black women spoke up about the discrimination we face and asked for allies to hold systems and institutions accountable, why is our go to answer “academia takes time?”
Denialism in academia:
One of the things we’re really good at in medicine, especially in surgery, is being self-critical. When our patients aren’t doing well or there’s an unexpected outcome, we’re quick to do a RCA (root-cause analysis), starting with ourselves.
One of the things we’re really good at in medicine, especially in surgery, is being self-critical. When our patients aren’t doing well or there’s an unexpected outcome, we’re quick to do a RCA (root-cause analysis), starting with ourselves.
We interrogate the entire process, try to figure out what we missed, where we went wrong. And we ask:
What could we have done better?
What am I going to do differently next time so that we don’t have a similar outcome for our next patient?
This is how we improve patient care.
What could we have done better?
What am I going to do differently next time so that we don’t have a similar outcome for our next patient?
This is how we improve patient care.
But when it comes to the harm we cause to our BIPOC patients (health disparities) and colleagues (#MedRacism), we instantly lose that skill. We’re no longer willing to reflect on our actions and the harm they cause.
We insist on being in denial.
And we insist on retaliation.
We insist on being in denial.
And we insist on retaliation.
Vascular surgery: showing activism, bikinis, alcohol on social media is unprofessional.
Cardiology:
Cardiology:
It’s 2020 and we’re asking for peer-reviewed blatant racist papers to be retracted 🤦🏾‍♀️
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