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THREAD: July is #MinorityMentalHealthAwareness Month. For the first edition of #IETheIssue, @OfficerStephNY facilitated a conversation between @DrSampsonDavis and Rondell Johnson, a master social worker @CHNNYC, about the stress of the moment we are in.
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1/ He is a board-certified emergency room doctor, a New York Times best-selling author, and helped create @threedoctors, which has given back his New Jersey community for more than 20 years –and @DrSampsonDavis is still apprehensive of the police.
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2/ “I was pulled over by a police officer last week, and literally it was like a detour to get off the exit because of construction being done on the highway. So I took a detour and pulled off and the police officer pulled me over and he said…”
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3/ “…,‘Well, you exited too soon…The sign said 500 yards ahead.’ I was like, ‘Okay, 500 yards ahead.’ So I was 500 yards early and you're pulling me over for this.” – @DrSampsonDavis
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4/ "Luckily I had my uniform on and showed I was a physician and he let me move on. But, it's just those type of things I think are the racial acts that I've felt in this country over and over again." – @DrSampsonDavis
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5/ @DrSampsonDavis has also been working 12-18 hour shifts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, witnessing its gruesome impact on individuals and families, including his own.
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6/ “I lost my brother from coronavirus. He passed away on April 23 from the virus. I lost two physicians that worked very closely with, from COVID.” – @DrSampsonDavis
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7/ “Then you take George Floyd and what has been happening in this country over 400 years, is the racism that exists…”
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8/ “…And so you add that sort of pandemic within a pandemic, and then just your own personal life of survivability, and then businesses shutting down and trying to survive financially for you and your family. It's a lot to take on." – @DrSampsonDavis
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9/ Handling a medical pandemic and one created by man has taken a toll. "And I think what we have seen specifically with George Floyd is that enough is enough, is enough, is enough. There's no more wiggle room. There's no more excuses." – @DrSampsonDavis
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10/ So how does one cope? @OfficerStephNY was there as @DrSampsonDavis met with LMSW Rondell Johnson, who works as a therapist @CHNNYC.
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11/ This was a safe space where Davis could emote and discuss his experiences as both a Black man and a healthcare professional battling COVID-19. Here's an abridged version of Johnson and @DrSampsonDavis in conversation.
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For @OfficerStephNY’s full story In Conversation: a Black ER Doctor Shares His Stresses and Struggles With a Therapist:
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