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I was asked to nominate speakers to our @mac_peds recently, the BEST speakers I know.

First up to bat was @MGottliebMD ... One of the most productive people I know. (Seriously. He published like 80 papers in 2020. 🤯)

10 Tips for increasing your academic productivity.
Tip #1: Be Open To Ideas
(and keep track of them).
Consider using your smartphone, a diary, a google doc, voice memos. Record all your ideas when they happen. You never know when your best idea will occur.
Tip #2: Know What's Known
Your literature review is your best friend for helping you join a scholarly conversation - but also it can be an opportunity for scholarship itself.

Mike tells the story around this paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
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We are only a few days away from #WIMStrongerTogether #WIMSummit. Let's spotlight some of our incredible speakers. If you haven't registered yet, there is still time! If you can't attend all sessions live, they will be recorded and available for 1 year!
womeninmedicinesummit.org
Let's start with ER Physician, regular @CNN and @MSNBC contributor and @researchaffirm and @BrownDigiHealth leader, researcher, advocate, and healthcare leader Dr. @meganranney. Come and hear her speak on How We Can Join Together to Make Change. #womeninleadership
Dr. @DrBonnieMason is the VP if Diversity and Inclusion @acgme, founder of @beyondtheexamroom, orthopedic surgeon and national healthcare leader will be speaking on leadership. She has decades of experience educating mentoring and sponsoring the next generation of clinicians.
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1/ Families #COVID19: @washingtonpost

With COVID our ICUs fell backwards in time. Consolidation of power within the medical team. Lack of visitation. It’s suppression of healing and it’s wrong.
Op-Ed Link: wapo.st/3ftwzBa
#medtwitter #pulmcc #meded @WesElyMD
2/ How do we bring patients and families (safely) into the very foreign world of the ICU with humility, integrity and purpose? How do we share the space?
#patientexp #MedTwitter
3/ Episteme – a principled system of knowledge; scientific knowledge. How can we truly share what we know without family presence? How do we learn what they know?
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In recent years have started to question the traditional approach to #narrativemedicine. Who owns a story? What lens is applied? I get it is seen as important for “joy of practice” to tell these stories as doctors. Except, these are actual lives and bodies of human beings.
As in, I don’t know the right answer but I also don’t think we are asking enough questions of ourselves, our profession, our peers, our professors/attendings.

Ours is a profession that labels
>age 35 as “geriatric pregnancy” after all

My pinned tweet:
Or: #nyc writing class, read “The Laugh”
by Tea Obreht:had never been yet wrote story in Subsaharan Africa

Vivid descriptions of wild animals
Black male=passion

WOC in class had to point out to instructor: WOC characters were flat, one-dimensional, silent, passive
=White gaze
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For “not sure who needs to hear this” trend
here is mine:

As a #SciComm doctor if:
-several nurses flag something
-POC/WOC bring up overt or implicit bias
and/or
-patients are concerned

Pause, listen, & self examine
Course correct

right thing to do
+
protects you
#MedTwitter
I listen *very* carefully to nurses

I went to a residency where I singlehandedly admitted 22 patients + crosscover as an intern, no night float. It was excellent nurses who were protecting patients & families, the institution, & me

Listen to nurses

To be anti-racist must “see” color
If have less melanin &
there is a lot more melanin in the side asking you to pause, consider, self examine

listen

If find yourself blocking POC of #MedTwitter, are you simply creating a new Jim Crow?
=bias in action

rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
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#NarrativeintheTimeofCorona

I saw this mask on the ground while taking a walk today in my neighborhood. For a moment, the wind on my face and my dog tugging against the leash had me thinking that things were back to normal.

But then I saw this.

A jolt back to reality.
2/
How do I feel? I'm not sure.

We are all unique individuals whose feelings reflect the complexities of who we are. These are tough times in health care. When I don’t know how to feel, it helps me to write in first person through different perspectives.

Today I am doing that.
3/
Afraid

I want to beat my chest and give a war cry. Swipe paint under my eyes and go running in fearless like the rest. I see my peers entering the middle of the coliseum glaring unapologetically at the enemy.

I wish I felt the same.

I do not.

What I am is afraid.
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With my limited energy at the end of the day, I’ve chosen to share what I love with my kid.
(Not math)
We’ve been doing #visualthinkingstrategies and #narrativemedicine. This is our first exercise. I showed 9yo “The Subway” by George Tooker. A thread 1/ Image
We talked about
1. What he thought was happening in the painting?
2. What he saw that made him say that?
3. What more could he see?
And then he wrote a few sentences in the voice of one of the characters.
He saw the themes of “aloneness even together when they are close.” 2/
He saw fear.
We got to talk about how it feels to be “trapped” without a clear way out, even for the one lady who seems to need medical help.
The #covid19 parallels were obvious and it opened a window for him to talk about it.
15 minutes total. #Artheals #medtwitter 3/
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New ep! Why are medical records so difficult to access, both for caregivers & patients? Two wonderful guests, @CarolynLye & @ilanayurkiewicz join @audreymdmph to talk about this today - thru #narrative lens✍️ & #research🖥️📑 lens! @HMSPrimaryCare primarycare.hms.harvard.edu/rospod/ros-bar…
.@ilanayurkiewicz looks at this issue as a caregiver & writer, and talks about her patient Michael & his partner, Leah. She tells the story about how lack of access to medical records adversely impacted Michael's care #medhum #narrativemedicine #narrative undark.org/article/medica…
.@CarolynLye looks at this issue as a researcher, and talks w us about her recent publication in @JAMANetworkOpen! She & colleagues showed staggering variability and challenges in the patient medical records request process:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
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