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So I think it’s really important to consider ways in which we can deconstruct racism in #Academia so please feel free to interact and share your thoughts...a thread 🧵 #SharetheMicNowMed @DrAyanaJordan
Some ideas To advocate for structural change within academia to address racism and increase the presence of Black & Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC)
(1) chairs establish Anti-Racism goals that everyone must adhere to for tenure
(2) appoint BIPOC faculty to tenure committees
(3) acknowledge/value community work within the academic dossier
(4) undoing racism seminars funded for all faculty including volunteer faculty
(5) journal clubs throughout all medicine sub specialties highlighting scholarship in this area
(6) GRand rounds on anti-racism
(7) anonymous line to report racist comments/interactions
(8) accountability/consequences for faculty known to engage in racist/non inclusive behavior regardless of research funding status
(9) placards throughout the university affirming/an anti-racist environment
(10) actually providing competitive salaries and funding for BIPOC hires
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD
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Just a quick set of comments on some things I’ve noticed, particularly in the last week, among some of the leaders in medicine.

Some have responded to racism and the murder of black people with timely, appropriate statements. They are not my focus.

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In an effort to help, here are my thoughts on common mistakes I’m seeing made.

1. If you are a section, division, dept chair or dean and have not issued a formal statement, please reflect on why. Your silence implies approval of racism and police brutality against black people.
2. If you released a statement that basically says all lives matter, you have sent out a damaging message and should retract it. If you’re not sure why that messaging is harmful, there are many resources available to help you understand. Here’s one:

vox.com/2016/7/11/1213…
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A few months back, I got pulled over by a cop. I was nervous, of course. But I knew, in that moment, that I didn’t need to fear for my life--my skin color is light. He was polite, maybe even friendly. Gave me a ticket, wished me a good afternoon, even, and I was on my way.

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Not interacting with the law often, my heart was still racing as I drove away. And I was thinking about how lucky I was to be born this way. I had seen Queen & Slim recently, and the early pivotal scene in that movie was replaying in my head.

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I saw Jodie Turner-Smith’s eyes, pleading with Daniel Kaluya’s character to not challenge the officer. I saw the officer getting angry, trying to assert dominance, and I saw Kaluya’s character fight back.

I was grateful for the stark contrast to what I had experienced.

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The loss of life is always hard for everyone involved. Our patients are gone, and their families are devastated. As physicians, many of us are devastated as well. We just don’t talk about it.

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It seems like maybe we don’t have a right to grieve. After all, we didn’t know the patient as well as their friends and family or for as long.

It seems selfish to grieve. Our loss is unimportant compared to theirs.

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Yesterday, I walked through our unit, a temporary ICU, noticing several empty beds. As fewer people are being admitted to the hospital with COVID, some vacated beds have remained empty.

In almost every one of those beds, there had been a patient we had lost.

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