I will try to find the words that strike the right balance between hope & frustration.
Hope : How amazing that all my colleagues are waking up to the fact that racism and racism in medicine is real.
Frustration : This feels like a nightmare.
..a 🧵
Hope : How amazing that all my colleagues are waking up to the fact that racism and racism in medicine is real.
Frustration : This feels like a nightmare.
..a 🧵
No exaggeration, I have had > 10 separate offers in the past two weeks to “give my perspective” on racism in the medical setting. Peer groups, division meeting, departmental, school of medicine, state level, national level..it goes on. Private entities and public entities alike.
For the past six years as academic faculty , I have promoted DEI as a side job in academic medicine because it was seen as just that.. an afterthought or side thought to whatever primary issue was at hand. How much I would have loved to be invited and given a platform - THEN.
This is when the nightmare comes in. There are so very very few Black faculty. Any one of us is literally stretched so thin right now so as to snap right in half. Between our personal emotional well-being and ushering an entire profession along through an abrupt awakening,
It’s. Too. Much.
Although it’s in fashion, please consider delaying asking someone to speak, write or be the new person on the committee for *three months*.
At that time, (1) real efforts / change will have persisted (2) we can breath.
#MedTwitter
#BlackInIvory
Although it’s in fashion, please consider delaying asking someone to speak, write or be the new person on the committee for *three months*.
At that time, (1) real efforts / change will have persisted (2) we can breath.
#MedTwitter
#BlackInIvory
