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13 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I know some doctors like to say “don’t confuse your google search with my degree” -personally, given errors made by peer review, from Wakefield to #MedBikini (cyberstalking = scholarship?), I don’t consider a patient’s Google search something to ridicule news.bloomberglaw.com/pharma-and-lif…
In fact, I prefer to “Don’t confuse...”

“...your ivory tower ignorance...”
or “...your PhD in leadership....”

“....with my actual experience”

like of being a CMO of a $100m 14-Center FQHC in neighborhoods where a Black woman is 12x more likely to die of maternal mortality
I am not interested in how many books you have read or written or leadership programs you started at non-diverse institutions

until you show me you have done the work & have immersed yourself in the settings you study...

..with TRUE partnership and humility, not just photo ops
Why should the public, especially women, LGBTQ, BIPOC patients trust us?

Trust has to be earned and is easily lost

The medical profession has *earned* distrust

now: new ways to police/punish
rather than care, heal

how is this safe spaces for patients?

chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen…
Am really done with this - I had asked why no one represented from communities served. Apparently they could not find anyone. Did they get the contacts of Black and BIPOC women from frontlines asking astute questions? No. Will subsequent sessions be more informed on realities?

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Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH Profile picture
14 Oct
Hear, hear

As a confident WOC willing to enter male dominated, non-diverse spaces (women >20% of my class & rare in tech)

I hear from men and women:
I take up too much space, I talk too much, etc, etc.

If invited 6x to podcasts in 2019, is that "too much"?
Who decides?
In the marketplace of ideas, lack of women o BIPOC in a space, what is the metric of too much/little? A recent thread on leadership coaching specific to #WIM: importance of having manners if one wants a seat at the table

How about results as the metric?
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I'm successful as an advocate, having been a Health Advocate of the Year in 2012 by @Drsforamerica in 2012. Part of being an advocate is bringing issues to the forefront that may not be the priority of decision makers. One communicates on it (albeit, at times, relentlessly) ImageImageImageImage
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14 Oct
This 👇🏿👇🏼👇🏾

Women in medicine have choices on how to consume attention and airtime. If women wish to be counter sexist stereotypes that depict us as petty, maybe the causes we care about and invest the most time and attention in should reflect well on our priorities and values.
Outrage is easy to manufacture. Is the level of outrage matched to the issue?

As some have tweeted, don’t like a company? Don’t buy their products. The market will take care of @wearfigs whose advertising ridicules both women & DOs. Ridiculing customers is a bad business move.
The market is not a factor that will address these issues. With most physicians employed, other clinicians also employed, penetration of Wall St & PE into healthcare, and evidence of higher mortality rates for Black and minoritized populations, many things to be outraged over ImageImageImageImage
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12 Oct
Absolutely true @askdrstephanie - in fact, I have seen that seeking fairness, accountability, accuracy can even result in a vicious backlash if the other person is will be willing to manipulate a narrative and play the victim to distract from harm to others or exploitation.
Anyone who talks about "optics" or "reputation" or deletes a lot of things is already signaling they care about image, popularity, and what others think. That often is a barrier to ethics, fairness, accountability, or accuracy. We can't solve messy problems by being prissy.
That's honestly why I am so glad I am moving out of #MedTwitter spaces and the actual hospital spaces represented by them into #STEM and #hackathon spaces. Instead of judging people and gossip, roll up your sleeves and get 💩 done, whether with high school students or retirees.
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11 Oct
Please start to do this. If you find something not factual, take the time to highlight, cross out, write notes on the image. We are highly visual creatures and the red X will communicate much better than your facts or words.

Make the “wrong” or “not factual” a clear visual.
Further, think of unintended consequences. Will what you put out there take a life if its own?

I have seen too many of those paid to instruct #STEM professionals on #SciComm & #MedTwitter professionalism

fail to understand this aspect of #SciComm - how will others repurpose?
How often in re-sharing a conspiracy theory post are you merely driving traffic to that site or person? It is a numbers game. In your “OMG look at this!!!!” are you contributing to this?

Please stay away from those who share a new “look how bad” example

sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/f…
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11 Oct
This is the second time in 24 hours the focus has been in being polite from within #WIM #PROWD

Traits I value:
visionary, innovative
being accurate
humanism
pro-mental health

Polite is a subjective term, often means aligning w/ status quo. Polite people quietly avoid bullies.
Yes, @KamalaHarris is able to smile through her debates and adhere to expected gender norms and avoid any hint of the racist trope of “angry” as a Black woman. But is that really what makes her qualified? Or is it a career worth of experience as well as times she persisted?
What are our priorities? In a busy world, we will only have a chance to achieve 3-5 max. If we put polite and being on time in those top 3-5, where does addressing safety, quality, inequity, mental health fall? Are we judging someone on timeliness who may have chronic illness?
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10 Oct
Absolutely. Sound even so the “don’t talk to her, DM me instead.” Also, plenty of men gossip or encourage women to gossip and spread gossip to achieve an agenda or neutralize someone.
Typos in above.. oops. But you get the drift.

Isolating people, preventing communication with someone, moving communication to dark spaces, DM conversations about others ..are all red flags for bullying.

oncentral.org/news/2012/09/1…
Bullies often flip the narrative and play victim which makes it hard to assess

Step back. Look at actions

Who is using gossip and isolation? Who is shining sunlight and being direct?

Who escalates emotions each time they are shown to be inconsistent?

journey.support/2019/09/07/bul…
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