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I was blown away by the #ANES20 Rovenstine lecture from @JoanneConroyMD
She initated a call to action for anesthesiologists by acknowledging the biggest issues for our specialty:
➡️#disruption
➡️#equity
➡️#patientsafety
2/8 Disruption sums up 2020. Our lives will never be the same. But disruption can make things better. Let's embrace it & lead periop medicine. Telehealth connects us to pts out of the OR, for preop eval & postop follow-up. Working remotely creates innovative practice structures.
3/8 #ANES20 #Equity focused on gender, drawing attention to the #genderpaygap & #motherhoodpenalty, 2 real elements that are often dismissed. There hasn’t been much progress around eliminating them, even after identification years ago! As @JoanneConroyMD said:
4/8 Only 5/59 Rovenstine lecturers were ♀️, all in the last 30 yrs. 1st in 1993 was Betty Bamforth, for the 32nd lecture, entitled “Learning From Our Past.” Let's Do It! Like RBG’s dream for 9 ♀️Supreme Court Justices, we should aim for ALL keynotes to be given by ♀️. #ANES20
5/8 Patient safety: this has always been a focus of our specialty, & Dr. Conroy challenges us to step up & lead the charge for all of healthcare. Support multidiscinplinary organizations like @APSF. Use the multitude of data we have to make change. Inspiring! #ANES20
6/8 I loved how she closed the talk. She thanked the ♂️ who had challenged her along the way, both negative & #HeForShe . She acknowledged her #girlgang, including @Women_Of_Impact & @TIMESUPHC . Never thought I would hear those things discussed in a marquee #ANES20 lecture!
For those of you who missed the live Tweet of my @ASALifeline#ANES20 RCL on perioperative management of adults with T21, CF, DMD, &ex-preemies, I've linked all of them together in this thread, for a summary. 1/19 @PediAnesthesia@SPAQIedu@PedsAnesNet
My brother received a phone call from my phone # (with my name attached to it). When he picked it up, he heard a woman screaming & a man on the line told him that he had me & was going to kill me. He then tried to extort my brother by telling him to download CashApp & send $$.
My brother was awesome because as freaked out as he was, he stayed calm, kept the guy on the phone & asked appropriate questions for proof of life, while my sister-in-law called the police. My sister-in-law was reached me on my cell phone to know I was ok.
In today's @ASALifeline MMO, learned about Dr Herman Barnett's accomplishments & strife. Thanks @marydahlen: "It’s clear that more needs to be done for equality, both in society overall and in medicine and anesthesiology specifically." #BlackMeninMedicine#BlackHistoryMonth
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Dr. Barnett was a fighter pilot in WW2, followed by 1st African-American medical student in Texas, at UTMB...although not without controversy, prejudice, & discrimination. Graduated cum laude, pursued surgery residency, then anesthesiology residency.
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A great leader & physician, he was appointed to Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, & elected president of Houston Independent School District (1st African-American in both positions). Sadly, his potential & life were cut short by a tragic plan accident at 47 y.
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@nytimes this article is misleading. While work-life balance of medicine has improved, it has for most professions. The life of a MD/DO is not “family-friendly.”
As a 🚺 MD, I continued working after having kids bc bring a physician is a calling & I had sacrificed too much in my life to ever give it up.
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Additionally this article does nothing to address the gender bias in medicine that has 🚺 working less hours, being paid less, being promoted less, & doing more domestic work.
And why does it not discuss the benefits of “family-friendly” for 🚹?
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