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Mar 20 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
On this upcoming International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery & Transatlantic SlaveTrade 3/25 & International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 3/21, I'm remembering how Black people were cared for by Veterinarians along with white folks' animals. 1/
I’m remembering how we weren’t seen by human physicians unless our case was complex or “interesting” and were serving the role of “teaching material” for the education of white physicians or “research materials” for experimentation and research to improve white health.

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I’m remembering how not much has changed today as practices such as “race correction” continue to uphold the current system of medical apartheid that undervalues Black bodies, minds, and souls in the Canadian and US health/healthcare/pubic health system.

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How it perpetuates the white delusional supremacist scientific antiBlack racism that perpetuates the myth of inherent Black inferiority.

On this week dedicated to the International Decade for People of African Descent...

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...we re-commit to eliminating global antiBlackness in medicine, healthcare, and public health and ending race correction in Canada & the United States.

How about you?

un.org/en/observances…

@rede4blacklives
@endrace
#EndRaceCorrectin
#CanadaUSCoalition
#AIMART

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Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD, FAAP, FAIM Profile picture
Mar 19
Morntint☀️
Now that you washed the crust from yo’ eyes & done your morntint meditation - can’t wait to see you 1pmET this aftrnoon on @TwitterSpaces
for the crisis management that is #AIMART becos
📣Global AntiBlackness is a Global Health Crisis!
🌍Africa*Asia*MidEast

AMPLIFY!
With phenomenal co-hosts @AmyTanMD @karanjasan @pritinemani @rede4blacklives

twitter.com/i/spaces/1ZkJz…
Then follow @Clubhouse for the antiracism skills workshop on the CARE framework/Rubric.
4:30pmET

clubhouse.com/event/M4Ga9KLy…
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Jan 30
Good morntint to everyone except people who reflexively hit the “people shld be hired/admitted/recognized on the basis of their qualifications rgrdlss of skin color/gender” button when a Black (woman) is considered for a position, but not when it’s the usual mediocre white men.
These folks are your run-of-the-mill “color blind” intentionally ignorant folks who refuse to understand that we don’t function in a vacuum & the ubiquitous presence & impact of white supremacy informing their expectation of qualifications for marginalized identities while…
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…assuming inherent qualification for white mediocrity. I’m talking blatant mediocrity. We are surrounded by it and suffer the consequences of poor leadership & performance in our places of work, education, service, etc.

Why?

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Jan 23
#AIMART storytime 🧵
This just in: Boom💥
So, I’m getting ready for work today, tying up the ol’ scrubs and peek at my phone - I see a message, sent last night from the ER doc stating that one of my patients, a young Black man admitted for Sickle cell pain crisis...

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..., wanted to leave and the doc was okay with discharging because the patient’s pain seemed to have resolved. Ok, I get to the 🏥and my team informs me the patient is still in-house (in the ED – No beds on the floors.

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The ED is overflowing, so we have patients admitted and waiting in the ED for a bed for daaaays on end. Coupled with the ED being short-staffed - yeah…not good) and didn’t leave, after my wonderful senior resident convinced him to stay and receive more analgesia (pain meds)

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Oct 25, 2021
Good morntint!
So………how are these “DEI” “Microaggression” trainings going? 💅🏾💅🏾💅🏾
Because when super white, male, DOCTORS claim to be 1️⃣microaggressed against 2️⃣Because a (Black Womxn) patient exerted their right to the quality of care they deserve3️⃣ w/ No apology or correction or learning after being corrected by Black & minoritized folks….
…something has gone very awry upstream & downstream.

Once again, ya cain’t train away racism, ya cain’t train away classism, ya cain’t train away patriarchy, ya cain’t train away misogynoir, etc. And ya cain’t replace “Racism”, “white supremacy”, “whiteness”,…
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Oct 22, 2021
Thank you @waynemedicine for this press release!
bit.ly/2ZiSIA0

“Racism in medicine has “deep historical roots in white supremacy & anti-Blackness, particularly the pathologizing of Black bodies through pseudoscientific claims of the biological significance ‘race,’…” Image
Despite our understanding of race as a sociopolitical construct , it continues to be incorrectly conflated with ‘genetic ancestry in research & clinical practice which informs policy, norms, & culture and fuels the fire of disparities in multiple domains.
bit.ly/3vDwKDu
“Those roots…have developed branches that continue to reach into medical science & medicine to this day, particularly in the ways science frames racial health disparities as a result of biological differences among racial categories.” & as an independent risk factor for disease.
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May 10, 2021
To be a Black physician is to constantly wear multiple hats at once. It is to be both healer AND advocate. It is to know medicine AND history AND politics AND psychology AND sociology AND communications. It is to be an expert in complexity science & an innovations savant.

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It’s barely 1/2 the day rounding on a Monday on a new team & in addition to taking care of patients & teaching, I already had to:
1️⃣Disabuse my team of race-based medicine aka scientific racism as they tried to use race to determine blood pressure medications for a patient

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2️⃣Advocate for patient autonomy & the right for one of our patients to obtain certain information about his care so he can be aware of what’s happening in relation to his health and make certain informed decisions & to not be put in potential harm’s way.

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