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Qaali Hussein, MD, FACS

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29 Jan

For my chief year grand rounds presentation, a mentor suggested that I use it as an opportunity to share my experience going through surgery training and having children. He suggested I share both the good the bad.

I loved this idea. It felt like we would be doing an M&M conference on our lived experiences as humans going through professional and personal challenges. I liked the idea that what was seen as a “problem” (pregnant surgery resident)...

became an opportunity for us to change our culture to be more inclusive. I wanted to include the fact that we were able to increase awareness of surgery boards accommods for pregnancy during training among our residents, and as a result more women were considering fam planning.

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Qaali Hussein, MD, FACS

@QaaliHussein1

10 Dec 20

#ToxicMedicine

I got a call from one of our NPs that a neurosurgeon was berating him and the icu nurses about why his postop patient was in the icu. He brought one to tears and was yelling at the charge as well. So I called.

Nsg: Who the hell transferred my postop pt to the ICU?

Me: I did.

Nsg: Who gave you permission to transfer my patient?

Me: I’m the admitting physician. You’re a consultant. Are you aware of their other injuries?

Nsg: Listen, hun, I don’t know who you think you are but...

Me: First, don’t call me hun. Second, it’s Dr. Hussein

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Qaali Hussein, MD, FACS

@QaaliHussein1

6 Dec 20

The toxic culture of surgery...

The story of two attendings. One we’ll call Toxic and the other Nice.

Toxic is your typical surgery bro with a god complex.

Nice is a good surgeon and a patient teacher.

I was on call with Nice when Toxic came to sign out to us on the patient he just operated on. He shared his plans and some labs to follow up on.

I asked if the labs had already been ordered or if I needed to order them.

Things went off the rails quickly. This was routine for him to go off for random reasons. And it didn’t help that he and I never got along for some reason.

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Qaali Hussein, MD, FACS

@QaaliHussein1

22 Sep 20

“We were going to ask you to take off your hijab.”

I was made aware of this idea at the end of my term at one of the institutions I trained in. Timeline ranges from 2004-2015.

This was the conclusion reached after a faculty meeting.

A FACULTY MEETING‼️

I wasn’t told the thought process behind this ask or who brought up the idea.

I was simply told that my hijab could be “a potential problem.”

For who? 🤷🏾‍♀️

But lucky for them, there was someone in the room who knew better and told them the potential consequences of this ask.

So, they ended up not asking me to take off my hijab NOT because they respected me and my decisions in how I chose to practice my religion.

Not because I belonged in medicine as my authentic self.

They didn’t ask me because they were afraid of the legal consequences.

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Qaali Hussein, MD, FACS

@QaaliHussein1

4 Sep 20

https://twitter.com/QaaliHussein1/status/1268973937741844480

#antiracism work in #Med needs to progress beyond statements, shows of solidarity, and hashtags (all performance).

It requires having difficult conversations and facing harsh truths. It requires taking action.

If you’re not getting uncomfortable, you’re doing it wrong.

https://twitter.com/QaaliHussein1/status/1268973937741844480

I’m going to keep reposting this thread on a conversation I was invited to host.

Look at the non-engagement.

People are not ready move out of their comfort zone.

We keep getting distracted with more performance.

More bandwagon jumping on the fad that is now “antiracism”

This is not going to work.

#DEI for a long time has been made just a gender-equity fight. All other marginalized groups have been (surprise, surprise!), marginalized.

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Qaali Hussein, MD, FACS

@QaaliHussein1

2 Sep 20

Does it have to take a national movement against racism for the discrimination BIPOC women face in medicine to be taken seriously?

Does it have to take a national movement for “all these disparities women face in the workplace are worse for intersectional women” to move from a one-liner in #DEI work to the forefront and for #SystemicRacism to be relevant in the women in medicine movement?

When Black women spoke up about the discrimination we face and asked for allies to hold systems and institutions accountable, why is our go to answer “academia takes time?”

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