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A few months ago, well before I shared my story publicly, a friend tried to help me understand that I can use any vehicle to teach. I didn’t need a classroom. He advised that I share with Black students what it means to be #BlackinMedicine 1/15
Growing up in Atlanta gives you a different sense of the world. You’re surrounded by Black professionals. Undoubtedly there’s racism but you learn to work hard and that your work will speak for you. Indeed Until now, my work, clinical and teaching, has spoken for itself. 2/15
Patients loved seeing me because they would “always learn something”, students would schedule extra free time with me because they loved my teaching style and feedback, my coworkers would come to me for advice for their loved ones because they trusted my judgment. 3/15
We lost another doctor today
To COVID
But this doctor was mistreated. Her symptoms were ignored, downplayed and dismissed. She posted a heartbreaking video begging her fellow doctors to help save her...
She called the patient advocate...
She called the chief medical officer...
To COVID
But this doctor was mistreated. Her symptoms were ignored, downplayed and dismissed. She posted a heartbreaking video begging her fellow doctors to help save her...
She called the patient advocate...
She called the chief medical officer...
She was in pain and ignored
Fellow docs got her into another hospital...
It was too late..
She passed away today
The system failed her.
It failed us...
Anyone want to guess the race of this doctor?
Fellow docs got her into another hospital...
It was too late..
She passed away today
The system failed her.
It failed us...
Anyone want to guess the race of this doctor?
I'm pissed cause she didnt have to die like that
Her pain was dismissed
She was discharged WITHOUT being stable and was readmitted to another hospital because she was too scared to go back to the first hospital...
Her pain was dismissed
She was discharged WITHOUT being stable and was readmitted to another hospital because she was too scared to go back to the first hospital...
Dr. David Williams speaking at #AHA20
💸Pay gap for Black Americans is 59 cents vs $1 for White Americans
🛑Same as 1978!
Racial differences haven't changed in all this time
At every level of education, gap persists: income and education matter but race overrides this
💸Pay gap for Black Americans is 59 cents vs $1 for White Americans
🛑Same as 1978!
Racial differences haven't changed in all this time
At every level of education, gap persists: income and education matter but race overrides this
Racial Segregation is real #AHA20 and was part of racial regulation
💔2/3 of all Black Americans live in very low opportunity neighborhoods
💔This access to opportunity (or lack thereof) is a driver of racial ethnic differences
💔2/3 of all Black Americans live in very low opportunity neighborhoods
💔This access to opportunity (or lack thereof) is a driver of racial ethnic differences
The consequences of lack of opportunities increases all level of stressors and the consequences are real:
▶️Accelerated aging
▶️Premature aging
▶️Earlier onset of chronic diseases
#AHA20 @AHAMeetings #racism #racisminmedicine
▶️Accelerated aging
▶️Premature aging
▶️Earlier onset of chronic diseases
#AHA20 @AHAMeetings #racism #racisminmedicine
So, I am at @UIHealth with my Black friend, a Black trans person. They are visiting someone who is in the hospital. While they’re standing in the hospital room, another visitor enters the room and punches them in the face. This person doesn’t say anything. [1]
They don’t greet them. Nothing. They just punch them.
I go directly to the charge nurse a woman named Isabel and I tell her what’s happened. [2]
I go directly to the charge nurse a woman named Isabel and I tell her what’s happened. [2]
She goes to the room at @UIHealth, asks my friend if someone has hit them, they say yes, she asks who, they point to the person, she paces back to me, and then gets on the phone. [3]
It could be argued that medical schools are not simply ‘ill prepared to deal with the racism and racial harassment experienced by ethnic minority students’ but are, generally, prepared to NOT deal with such racism and racial harassment. #RacismInMedicine
bmj.com/content/368/bm…
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Medical schools are institutionally part of universities, which are public authorities having the following duty under the Equality Act 2010, section 149(1) (bit.ly/37ri0dl):
Failure to collect data on students’ complaints about racism and racial harassment suggests that a number of schools (and by association their universities) are abdicating responsibility to meet their legislative duties.
1/ #RacismInMedicine is not isolated 'lived experiences' by leftie wokists
👳🏽👳🏽I have been 'mistaken' for the other brown guy on the team.
🙊 I've been called 'wog' by a patient
🇮🇳 Asked 'Where are you really from?' by patients so we can discuss 'India'. Why does it matter?
👳🏽👳🏽I have been 'mistaken' for the other brown guy on the team.
🙊 I've been called 'wog' by a patient
🇮🇳 Asked 'Where are you really from?' by patients so we can discuss 'India'. Why does it matter?
2/ It's not really about:
'microaggressions': it's about empathy...if I said this how would the person feel?
What message am I communicating by asking them where they are from? I'm asking if they belong.
Would I ask the same question to someone else?
#RacismInMedicine
'microaggressions': it's about empathy...if I said this how would the person feel?
What message am I communicating by asking them where they are from? I'm asking if they belong.
Would I ask the same question to someone else?
#RacismInMedicine
3/ It's not really about:
'unconscious bias': it's about understanding how your mind works. Do I treat other people differently based on skin colour? It's uncomfortable to think we all are prejudiced. We are. #RacismInMedicine
@NHSEngland video:
youtube.com/watch?v=BDSurH…
'unconscious bias': it's about understanding how your mind works. Do I treat other people differently based on skin colour? It's uncomfortable to think we all are prejudiced. We are. #RacismInMedicine
@NHSEngland video:
youtube.com/watch?v=BDSurH…
