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Aysha H Khoury MD MPH FACP (I-sha Koo-ree)

11 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read

@elliepses

Thank you Medscape, @elliepses @ShimonDCohen @DrOmolara for helping me amplify my story. This photo was from my interview day. I excitedly called my “work mom”. She said from the sound of my voice she had no doubts I’d get the job. So joyous that day!

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@KPMedSchool

@KPMedSchool may continue to deny why I was fired but they cannot deny that I was up for promotion June 10 and then suspended within 9 hours of the August 28 class. They cannot rewrite history when I was told numerous times why I was suspended.

@DrMarkSchuster

@DrMarkSchuster you cannot claim that I have performance and conduct issues that didn’t exist prior to my suspension. You cannot create official complaints retroactively. #MedTwitter sees what happened. Prove your commitment to antiracism. Own what you’ve attempted to do to me.

Ugh. I really hate that you can’t edit on Twitter but I think ppl understand what I mean in this tweet. Conduct issues only seemed to arise after my suspension.

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Aysha H Khoury MD MPH FACP (I-sha Koo-ree)

@ayshakhoury

10 Jan

A Black newborn is 3 times more likely to DIE if their provider is white and not Black!

Let that sink in. For anyone who has ever anticipated the arrival of a baby in their family, let that sink in.

Meditate on that and then, how all that is jeopardized bc of a construct.

Do you feel that anxiety and fear? Do you feel that helplessness?

That’s how I’ve felt as a Black woman having to interact with white HCP. My MD and experience didn’t matter once I started advocating for family.

This is why bias and racial health disparities must be taught in a MEANINGFUL way in medical schools.

Anyone standing in the way of this work is putting lives at risk.

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Aysha H Khoury MD MPH FACP (I-sha Koo-ree)

@ayshakhoury

2 Jan

I appreciate this outpouring of support. If good can come from what happened to me, please start an antiracism journey NOW. Start in your business, department, home. Are you using your privilege to amplify the voices of minoritized and racialized folks around you?

As uncomfortable as it may be to hear, your silence allows situations like mine and worse than mine to occur. My situation was allowed to occur b/c 100s of faculty decided “this isn’t my problem” “I don’t have enough information” “I don’t want that to be me” “I never liked her”

But I have nothing to hide or be ashamed of. There is no additional information that’s coming. We know what happened without me being explicit. Leadership knows I didn’t violate any policy. They’ve never provided one. (The school doesn’t even have a code of conduct.)

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Aysha H Khoury MD MPH FACP (I-sha Koo-ree)

@ayshakhoury

31 Dec 20

Two weeks ago I was told “they want you back. You can teach January 4.” My lawyer was so excited.

A week later I was asked if I would leave “voluntarily”.

One week ago there was tentative agreement on a truth and reconciliation style process (something similar was requested in October.)

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Aysha H Khoury MD MPH FACP (I-sha Koo-ree)

@ayshakhoury

10 Dec 20

My pastoral counselor reminded me that “people don’t know the weight of their own stories”. So here is part of mine. On August 28, I had the most profound moment in my career as an educator. It was the 57th anniversary of the #MarchonWashington and #EmmetTill ‘s death. 1

I was asked by my Institution to incorporate the topics of bias and racial health disparities in my fundamentals of medicine class. I made the decision to show up fully as a Black woman in medicine. We had a candid discussion on racism in society, acknowledging what the day 2

Represented and how that shows up in medicine: under and conversely over representation, poor health outcomes (Black maternal health, extrajudicial murder by police) and ultimately 3

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