Somewhere in the last few months I unfollowed or blocked the lynchpin of social media crazy and now they’ve all gone away.
The antivaxxers, flat earth, fluoride is poison, 5G, COVID’s a hoax. All of them. Gone. All I see day after day is normal, logical, scientific opinions.
I wish I knew how I closed the wormhole to Tinfoil Hatland. It’s become so pleasant here where reliable people depend on other reliable people to render reliable opinions.
Alternatively, maybe I silence the people who are full on 🍌🍌🍌 so fast and so effortlessly that I just keep screening them right out of my sphere of attention. 🤔🤔🤔
Now when I see a post by @AmAz1ngPatR10t647388 I unsee it before the signal gets from my retina to my occiput.
Okay I’ve observed myself closely and figured it out.
I reflex-block bots and misinformation spreaders within a few milliseconds of identifying them.
Before their foolishness even registers on any conscious level.
Bam! Gone!!!
Fake usernames with a lot of numbers. No followers. No picture. No location.
Bam!!
Gone!!!!
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If a patient is having trouble getting along with staff in the hospital I sometimes take the time to teach them how to get the best care possible in the hospital. 1/
First you get to know the names of all the people taking care of you. 2/
Understand while they are here doing their job and treat you with courtesy and respect they are also human beings who appreciate being treated with courtesy and respect. 3/
I recently had a house staff teaching team and as an experiment we added a “problem” onto the end of each patient’s problem list called:
Bias.
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With humility, I admit I Didn’t think this project would bear as much fruit as it did.
After all the problems of ACUTE HYPOXEMIC RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY and SIRS, I would ask the team to consider how the patient’s race, gender, orientation, nationality, ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status, addiction, etc. was affecting their care past or present.