At this point many physicians and scholars have discussed how and why COVID-19 disproportionately affected black and brown folk. @ezekielRMed #ShareTheMicNowMed 1/
They’ve said it better than I have: decades (centuries) of systemic racism that created packed housing, chronic illness, and the lack of capital that disallowed many to adjust. @ezekielRMed @uche_blackstock @dn_charles @CamaraJones #ShareTheMicNowMed 2/
So what do we do about it? Why aren’t the issues that spread COVID like fire through kindling as central to the field of medicine as sterile technique? (serious question) @ezekielRMed #ShareTheMicNowMed 3/
I understand expediency, and I appreciate the notion that the C-Suite has concerns that I’m not abreast of, but I really don’t get it (not rhetorical) @ezekielRMed #ShareTheMicNowMed 4/
If the field is devoted to the sanctity of life, which I believe it’s practitioners are, than what does it matter how a life is saved? @ezekielRMed #ShareTheMicNowMed 5/
In the history of this nation, public health and medicine has fought harder for less. Centering clean water, fair wages, good schools, good food, and freedom from oppression seems simple no? #salk #sabin
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One of the things I’m consistently impressed by among my colleagues is the sense of ingenuity and curiosity, but I’m a little stunned by how often we refuse to even imagine the absence of some of our most common and most lethal maladies. #ShareTheMicNowMed @ezekielRMed 7/
We all know (or can google) exactly how many ways we as a field fail and have failed to protect our charges. #ShareTheMicNowMed @ezekielRMed 8/
But with an eye towards justice and equity, what are our wildest dreams. What (if you had one) was the moonshot that made you enter medicine? #ShareTheMicNowMed @ezekielRMed 9/
Hell, with an eye towards justice and equity, regardless of your field. What’s your moonshot? #ShareTheMicNowMed @ezekielRMed 10/
