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28 Aug, 3 tweets, 1 min read
Nothing puts the icing on the cake of a long week like getting pulled over in the hospital parking lot, wearing scrubs and your ID badge with your school of medicine plate tag on your car, being asked why you’re driving around the hospital parking lot on a Saturday.

#Tired
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28 Aug
Didn’t expect this tweet to garner such attention so let’s clear a few things up:

1.) This didn’t occur at UCLA. But no matter where it occurred that doesn’t make it okay, and suggesting the punishment of a single institution for a systemic issue is shortsighted.

1/x
2.) I am a large Black man with a Mohawk, earrings, and darker skin than the average Black American. I’m not about to play 21 questions with the police. Suggesting that I do so, or that if I did it would change my predicament…or make it better, is deeply harmful.

2/x
3.) I grew up in Georgia, went to college in Alabama, went to med school in Missouri, and now live in LA.

This is not the first time I’ve been pulled over (not even this month) yet somehow I’ve only had two incidences in which I could be cited for a cause.

3/x
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5 Jan
I recently had the chance to share my *non study related* approaches to tackling Step 1 with one of my mentees.

Since he found it useful, I thought I’d share them here.

#MedTwitter
#MedStudentTwitter 1/
Disclaimer: my school gives us 8 weeks of dedicated starting at the end of February. But I started working on my dedicated habits around this time of the year so that they were set by the time I actually needed them. 2/
1.) Protect your space and your peace:

Distance yourself from anyone who’s presence alone brings you stress.

Some of my closest friends in med school, I didnt talk to once second semester of 2nd year because all they could talk about was school...even when I didn’t want to. 3/
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4 Jan
The best thing that comes from my #WellnessWalks is uninterrupted time to reflect on my thoughts.

Because of @Luvvie’s conversations, I had the opportunity to reflect on how black women constantly help to make me a better person. Today I got to think of @FelishaP_S 1/
For a bit of background: I’ve always been a fan of advocacy. Because we all benefit from some form of privilege. Advocacy gives us the ability to use those privileges, whatever they may be, to speak up for those who don’t benefit from the same privilege(s). 2/
In the past I often advocated in private spaces. I would address moments of various -isms directly to the person, typically behind closed doors, yet rarely publicly.

My thinking for this was that it would make the conversation more digestible for the person I’m speaking with. 3/
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4 Jun 20
Yesterday I had the opportunity to partake in a 3hr painfully honest dialogue with my med school admin addressing the ways this country has failed Black people, the ways medical education has failed the Black student, and the ways they have failed me & my colleagues. 1/x
Stories were shared. Lessons were learned. And calls to action were made.

I chose to task my med school admin with three simple tasks, and I share these three tasks with you because I wholeheartedly believe they can be, and must be, implemented at every institution. 2/x
1.) Lectures on SDOH and racism in medicine must be integrated throughout the entire medical curriculum. A few lectures sprinkled here and there in the first year are not enough. 3/x
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27 May 20
Alright #MedTwitter for my followers who are allies to that black community, I must inform you that the #CentralParkKaren incident occurs for most black men in every aspect of their life. This includes medicine, except instead of the police it’s “administration”. 1/x
Every time I’m asked to give feedback I have to choose my words very carefully. Because the minute I say something the other person doesn’t like, there’s a very likely chance the situation will escalate and result in me being reported. 2/x
Even if I am absolutely correct. Even if I was explicitly asked for feedback. Even if I’ve had a smile on my face the entire conversation. Even if I have endorsed my willingness to discuss the topic further. 2/x
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23 May 20
Alright #MedTwitter you asked, therefore you shall receive. Find below the results of me sifting through all of the replies and quoted retweets to the HP House poll that were visible to me.

Total N=1282!
First, we'll do each HP Houses.

Note: If a House had no self proclaimed members of a specific specialty, that specialty was not included in its graph.
GRYFFINDOR
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