“Memory” from FB: The time I could not breathe despite 6 puffs of albuterol.
Severe asthma attack.
#blackqueens - thank you for always being there. Of all the women in the world, if I had to choose one at my side, I pick a #blackqueen every time. You all are the real deal.
Severe asthma attack.
#blackqueens - thank you for always being there. Of all the women in the world, if I had to choose one at my side, I pick a #blackqueen every time. You all are the real deal.
That year ended up a patient in ED twice cuz
-I was working a lot of 12-hour night shifts in the ED
-working as many hours as uncompensated/volunteer for ACA policy work including flying to D.C. often
-dancing non-stop in between
This is how I look w/peak flow ~200 (red) btw
-I was working a lot of 12-hour night shifts in the ED
-working as many hours as uncompensated/volunteer for ACA policy work including flying to D.C. often
-dancing non-stop in between
This is how I look w/peak flow ~200 (red) btw
The #DrSusanMoore story really makes me think. I had a #blackqueen nurse friend who worked at the hospital & who knew that I don’t look sick when I am about to collapse. She was not caring for me, rather able to come visit me after she completed her own 12-hour shift.
❤️💪🏿❤️💪🏿❤️
❤️💪🏿❤️💪🏿❤️
Studies like this? Constructed wrong, tbh
#Healthcare is delivered in a team
As doctor much of what I respond to is filtered through what other team members report to me (MD aware)
Who is the information gatekeeper for me?
Nurses often drive #quality
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
#Healthcare is delivered in a team
As doctor much of what I respond to is filtered through what other team members report to me (MD aware)
Who is the information gatekeeper for me?
Nurses often drive #quality
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
As a doctor, am the person held accountable for productivity on patient volume and with malpractice liability - easy to be distracted from keeping the patient at the center and human.
Bedside nurses ARE the patient advocate then.
They have held me accountable as a doctor.
Bedside nurses ARE the patient advocate then.
They have held me accountable as a doctor.
Why the blaming statement about #DrSusanMoore suggesting she “intimidated” nurses by being “knowledgeable” when she herself could not herself breathe, really struck me.
When I was a patient, & could not breathe but “looked well”, I had a nurse as a visitor. I am also not Black.
When I was a patient, & could not breathe but “looked well”, I had a nurse as a visitor. I am also not Black.
It was a white male physician friend who told me, when I was just going to stay home despite seeing retractions on myself after 6 puffs of albuterol & get steroids called in, that it could be a PE.
Oh, yeah, that adult stuff.
Why was *I* believed?
vox.com/identities/201…
Oh, yeah, that adult stuff.
Why was *I* believed?
vox.com/identities/201…
Who was it that spoke for me when my peak flow was ~200 & I could not speak easily in complete sentences? Who was it that stepped up, allowed me to be the “good” or not “intimidating” patient as judged by other clinicians? (& why are we judging patients?) northshorern.com/bad-patients-t…
Read this thread from @TamorahLewisMD on how it plays out. A lot of us don’t want to acknowledge what we do through implicit bias or simply scarcity of resources.
It’s not always race alone that determines who we like or dislike but that plays a part in how we prioritize people.
It’s not always race alone that determines who we like or dislike but that plays a part in how we prioritize people.
https://twitter.com/tamorahlewismd/status/1343329088325476352
So, the 1st picture is after I was treated. I was better able to breathe. Luckily, my oxygen level was not low. But anybody who works in emergency medicine/medicine knows that things like asthma can quickly change.
This is what it looked like outside then.
Also, ED was empty.
This is what it looked like outside then.
Also, ED was empty.
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