Thread by @usnehal

Initially I was a bit wary but after speaking with @londyloo and learning all her tweets were all already in news articles, yes, I understand this approach.

Many people in our profession remain in denial that is was “us”, some of us, at least.

Wake up. These are our peers.

https://twitter.com/londyloo/status/1348034894644051968

The reason it matters
reason that I support @londyloo in her approach:

If you work for the government, receive a salary that WE the PEOPLE pay for with OUR tax dollars, have taken an oath to uphold the CONSTITUTION

Accountability

It is necessary for integrity
& trust in system

https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1348007631043096579

Who do we entrust with shaping/enforcing our system of laws? If you are a legislator, law enforcement officer, an elected official, you CHOSE a job about rule of law & CHOSE to assume a position of power/authority. There are responsibilities to respect rule of law and processes.

As physicians our #ethics are critical. We are mandated reporters. We are licensed professionals. We are expert witnesses. We are among the more trusted professions in society. So if criminal activity that results in having a photo released by the @FBI, rest of us must cooperate.

I have been outspoken on failure of “professionalism” for ~a decade. It is too often abused to silence & protect the “elite” nature of a “club” rather than identify when standards & ethics are violated. Too often, we focus on superficial, “optics”, and what others think.

Respect that today’s med students, especially as higher education is a $583 BILLION industry, are being both informed consumers of own education & questioning/challenging the silencing pressures from the “profession”, increasingly of Wall Street culture, not Maimonides ethics

Increasingly I have understood why the phrase exists, “those who can’t do, teach.” Have tremendous respect for educators, but for future licensed professionals who will make life & death calls, serve as expert witnesses for abuse, pragmatic & current experience matters.

Increasingly seeing people with prior careers or other prior roles in healthcare in medical school: EMTs, nurses, MBAs, consultants, teachers, etc, etc. These people are not “below” ivory tower faculty. Opposite. This is a tremendous opportunity to learn from students’ experience

For instance, a former EMT who had to make split second decisions in dangerous circumstances without clear evidence in the moment that had ethical implications
Vs
a professor reading theory
Who “knows” more on ethics, then, in a med school ethics class?
= Different knowledge

Yes, I was a bit taken aback by some of what I saw @londyloo post UNTIL she explained she was posting already published, vetted, validated information & amplifying awareness of what is active search for information by the FBI on matters of national security & public safety.

Those who pride selves in experience & expertise actually become close minded, even unable to learn - full of hubris. It is important to maintain a “beginner’s mind” to stay open minded & learn from all possible sources, see familiar things in new ways.

In fact some types of intelligence, especially those found on silos of academia, can be more biased

If deep in own area of expertise, blocking out rest of knowledge/other fields

may be relying on heuristics to fast track

in “publish or perish” race.

amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/53…