Denialism in academia:
One of the things we’re really good at in medicine, especially in surgery, is being self-critical. When our patients aren’t doing well or there’s an unexpected outcome, we’re quick to do a RCA (root-cause analysis), starting with ourselves.
One of the things we’re really good at in medicine, especially in surgery, is being self-critical. When our patients aren’t doing well or there’s an unexpected outcome, we’re quick to do a RCA (root-cause analysis), starting with ourselves.
We interrogate the entire process, try to figure out what we missed, where we went wrong. And we ask:
What could we have done better?
What am I going to do differently next time so that we don’t have a similar outcome for our next patient?
This is how we improve patient care.
What could we have done better?
What am I going to do differently next time so that we don’t have a similar outcome for our next patient?
This is how we improve patient care.
But when it comes to the harm we cause to our BIPOC patients (health disparities) and colleagues (#MedRacism), we instantly lose that skill. We’re no longer willing to reflect on our actions and the harm they cause.
We insist on being in denial.
And we insist on retaliation.
We insist on being in denial.
And we insist on retaliation.
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