I don’t know who needs to hear this but doing the same thing “because we’ve always done it this way” is not a legitimate reason to keep a broken system in place.

Especially if the way “you’ve always done it”....

SUCKS.

- A message from the frontline for today’s “leaders”

✌🏾
I’m looking at you in particular healthcare c-suite/managers/supervisors or anyone in positions of power in healthcare orgs/med schools/residencies etc 👀👀👀

This stance is ubiquitous in healthcare. And it’s killing innovation.
Btw, prolly the people around you either don’t know anything about what I’m talking because they are equally as disconnected as you are OR they don’t feel safe enough to tell you ✌🏾

Either reality represents a complete failure of leadership 👀 🤷🏾‍♀️
We desperately need better leaders.
And don’t expect me to follow you off a cliff either because you don’t know how to lead.

Real talk.

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More from @DrBrittaniJ

27 May
BREAKING: Unsurprisingly, some fragile white male SNOWFLAKE members of the @AmerMedicalAssn, are highly triggered by the racial progress represented in the AMA’s strategic plan on health equity.

And now they are in the midst of a full blown tantrum 👀🙄

...Seriously?

🧵
2/ The good news? The white supremacist element of the AMA has FINALLY showed their hands.

Spoiler: the issue is not just in JAMA leadership....

It’s everywhere.

These toxic ppl have control of our field and will fight to keep it at any cost.

...That’s what this tantrum is.
3/ Btw, we’ve seen what they’ve done with their control of Medicine to date:

Let Black and brown people die in droves without a PEEP... and exploited Black and brown healthcare workers and trainees for their own economic and sociopolitical gain.
Read 19 tweets
15 May
Minding my own business shopping and a middle-aged white woman asked me if I work there.

When I looked at her blankly and answered back in a deadpan voice “no”, she giggled it off and said “I was just wondering where to put this shirt back”.

But I’m a bad person if I go off.
Kicking myself for not saying “I’m a physician” and letting her die of embarrassment.

But something tells me she wouldn’t even have the decency to be embarrassed.

Most of these types don’t.
Stop asking Black people why they are angry.

I can’t even shop in peace.
Read 4 tweets
6 Apr
Get this.

Last night I, along with a coalition of Black physicians, met with the President and Senior Leadership of the AMA.

Here’s what went down:

A thread.
2/ They held their cards close. They started on the defense.

I expected that.

Most white folks clam up when Black folks enter the room meaning business.

They tend to assume the worst of us.

An MD doesn’t stop that.
3/ The theme of the conversation was straight talk, no chaser.

We told them, to start, that it wasn’t acceptable to distance themself from what happened at @JAMA_current.

JAMA is their house. If JAMA missteps, they are accountable.

The need for accountability was a big theme.
Read 18 tweets
26 Feb
1/ You know it really is a trip that Black folks understand the racism of white folks more than white folks understand it themselves.

And yet here we are.....

A 🧵 for white folks.
2/ FACT: We know you better than you know yourselves.

Wanna know why?

Because we have to survive your racism every single day.

It sucks.
3/ It’s also ironic that you all ask US how to end racism.

...huh?

You built it.

You have all the power.

FIGURE IT OUT.
Read 8 tweets
14 Jan
PSA to white people who claim to care about (so called) “Diversity and Inclusion” or #DEI

Do us Black people a favor and STOP calling it diversity and “inclusion”.

Just stop!

Ya’ll are racist as hell + clueless about your racism.

Let me break this down for you:

(🧵Thread)
I don’t want white people to simply “include” me.

I reject the entire premise.

I reject the implication that white people are the norm.

I reject the fact that white people see their disproportionate power in society as natural and acceptable.
I reject the premise that white people should have the power to decide if Me as a Black women is worthy of “inclusion” in key spaces.

(Especially since white ppl control every power space in America)

Btw, that is what you are quietly assuming with the term “inclusion”

🙄🙄🙄
Read 8 tweets
5 Jan
Science has delivered a lifesaving vaccine against COVID.

Sadly, only 3 million of the 14 million available doses have been given out...Why?

Because knowing the right treatment is just the start of the battle in Healthcare.

Welcome to my world.

A thread.
2/ What we are experiencing right now is a systemic failure of healthcare in real time.
3/ None of how this pandemic is playing out is particularly surprising to me or my colleagues who work in safety net clinics across the US.

We lived the failed US Healthcare system pre-Pandemic.
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