Thread by @usnehal

I do miss this tbh. Once in East Boston, I was seeing a Latina tween with headaches that only happened Sunday nights. Turns out she was being bullied at school. I wrote a letter to her school to investigate the bullying. Loved she saw a woman who looked like her have authority.

https://twitter.com/nythealth/status/1346292916944330753

When you see your doctor listens, takes the time, believes you, uses her authority & credentials to make the system work for you, you start to feel safer & begin to trust, then may begin to listen. It is easy to write off “the system.” As much as I rail against, I work within it.

Our tax dollars pay for #publichealth and other resources. If only those who historically benefit from the system engage, that reinforces disparities.

Some people will try to tell you that only black and brown people are on public assistance but that is not true.

If we could address the widening income gap then we could reduce the amount of people on public assistance.

We also need to address the rising cost of many basic necessities including healthcare.

I have heard things inside of hospitals like “what is wrong with ‘their’ culture.”

No.

What is wrong with a culture, failing its citizens with worsening metrics on income, necessities, healthcare, education & cannot address structural inequity from historic exploitation?

Less Milton Friedman and more sensible economic policy, please. Yes. I get he got a Nobel Prize on consumerism. But only serving shareholders is NOT ethical or pro-social.

Simon Johnson has a much more realistic & humane view: project-syndicate.org/commentary/ine…