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To be a Black physician is to constantly wear multiple hats at once. It is to be both healer AND advocate. It is to know medicine AND history AND politics AND psychology AND sociology AND communications. It is to be an expert in complexity science & an innovations savant.
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It’s barely 1/2 the day rounding on a Monday on a new team & in addition to taking care of patients & teaching, I already had to:
1️⃣Disabuse my team of race-based medicine aka scientific racism as they tried to use race to determine blood pressure medications for a patient
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1️⃣Disabuse my team of race-based medicine aka scientific racism as they tried to use race to determine blood pressure medications for a patient
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2️⃣Advocate for patient autonomy & the right for one of our patients to obtain certain information about his care so he can be aware of what’s happening in relation to his health and make certain informed decisions & to not be put in potential harm’s way.
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