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Blackness is
being on your best behavior when a white woman attempts your own murder,

being solely responsible for a chance at justice,

then being responsible for teaching other white people about humanity, bravery, and decency

knowing full well they could kill you tomorrow.
Blackness is
asking politely through your outrage
knowing that too much volume will cost your life,

being forced to feign generosity as you are robbed of what you've earned, the gifts you've been given, and the beauty you've created.

It is being unwelcome in your own home.
Blackness is
exhaustion
the expectation of defeat

the will to wake each day and keep fighting, knowing that your oppressors possess not a fraction of your resilience.

It is knowing that they'll never set you free, but your heart will roar liberty before the day is done.
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Anthony Chin-Quee, MD
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A doctor’s faith in the world of #covid19:

Easter is tough for me.
I was raised in Christianity, but I never believed in the resurrection.
The idea that there was one magical human in all of history who raised himself from the dead just didn’t pass muster.
Stay with me…
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I knew I believed in something, but a religion that discouraged my questions and demanded that I find comfort in the absolutes posed in a book that had been both written as allegory and politically edited throughout history just made me feel lonely.
And resentful.
And angry.
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Then I went through med school and residency, and the barrage of pain, hopelessness, and death that sat at the center of my training hit my faith even harder. Where was this benevolent unseen force of good, comfort, and love?
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Anthony Chin-Quee, MD
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On arrival for my NY locums this week:
Reception: Hey Doc, staying safe?
Me: Trying. Anywhere to get groceries?
Him: It's pretty grim. Can't even find milk or baby formula.
Me: Yikes.
Him: I've got my pistol on my hip in case anyone looks at my hand sanitizer the wrong way.
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As this crisis has unfolded, I've found that comments like this are less and less surprising to me.

The more I pay attention to the responses of our neighbors, families, and government I see that,
above all else,

our American-ness is showing.

And it's literally killing us.
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We were bred to believe in our individual exceptionalism.
In our individual freedoms
In our right/duty to rebel in order to protect 'me and mine'.
And if you want to get ahead, friend or neighbor, you can work for it just as I did.

Don't expect my help.
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Anthony Chin-Quee, MD
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Just spent a night catching up with an old friend from med school.

I’ve put on a few pounds, he’s lost a few hairs from the top of his head, and we both look tired no matter the time of day.

"What's your book about?" He asked.

"It's about us."
#medtwitter
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He’s a black man. Brilliant with a mellow disposition.
Failed to match into Ortho at the end of Med school.
Did a year of Gen Surg internship and was accepted the next year into residency in Ortho at a program in the Deep South.
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Along with the standard punishment of residency training, he endured endless acts of racism both overt and covert.
At one point he had to employ a civil rights lawyer to scare his bosses into letting him complete his training on time.

He's now a spine surgeon.
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