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Apr 1 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1/
 Regarding #ampliFRIDAY:

1. If you are planning Grand Rounds or national/regional conferences, I’m suggesting #URiM people you should invite to speak.

2. This is a way to increase the number of professors from underrepresented & historically excluded backgrounds.

Mmm hmm. Image
2/
 Because, for example, out of ~ 39K full professors in US med schools only ~ 300 are Black women. (Do that math—it’s <1%!🤬)

So while it’s cool to follow them here, I’m saying INVITE THEM and CITE THEM so that they can get promoted.

But wait—there’s more. . . . Image
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 I explicitly say “with honorarium” because time is NOT a renewable resource. AND because while the “honor” is cool, when you don’t come from generational privilege, it’s even COOLER with an “arium” next to it.*

*I am so serious. Image
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 So if you’re in leadership or are on committees that invite people for national & regional talks? Use your influence to help us with the #URiM academic pipeline by considering 1 of these people.

Let’s DO THIS, #MedTwitter.👊🏽

#ampliFRIDAY
#supportisaverb
#wearethepipeline Image

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1/
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It was a Sunday. The students and interns had the day off so it was just the senior resident and me. This Grady elder was our last patient.

Yup.

Me: "What questions do you have for us?"
Her: "I don't have any questions. Y'all answered them. Thank you."
2/
 Me: "Okay. Is there anything else you need before we go?"
Her: "May I have one minute of your time?"
Us: *looking at each other*
Resident: "Sure. Tell us what you need."

She extended both of her hands out toward us, gesturing for each of us to take one of them.

We did.
3/
 She held our gaze and then spoke.

Her: "I'd like to pray for y’all. Is that okay?"

Shoot.

My breath hitched. I didn't want my resident to feel pressured or uncomfortable.

Shoot.

Had I been alone? This would’ve been a no brainer. But I was not.

Shoot.

Resident: “Okay.”
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Feb 27
1/
 Random moment while in line in the Grady coffee shop:

Her: "I remember you. You that lady that said I need to lose weight and get a better fitting bra when I said my back hurt."
Me: "I remember you, too. You changed your hair. It looks nice."
2/
 Her: "It's a wig.”
Me: *shrugs* “I still like it on you.”

She folded her arms and sucked her teeth.

Her: “I didn't like you at all."
Me: “No?”
Her: “No!”
Me: "I can respect that choice. How's your back?"
Her: "Respect what choice? A wig or me not liking you?"
Me: "Both."
3/
 Her: "My back is a lot better."
Me: "Oh yeah? What did the trick?"
Her: "I lost some weight. And got a different bra."

*laughter*

After that, she reached out and gave me a big hug. And I hugged her right back. Hard.

Her: “Girl you ‘bout to knock my wig off!”

*laughter*
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Feb 24
1/
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I could feel your grief the moment I stepped into the room. The resident had already told me of your loss.

So fresh.
So recent.

They said you cried on an off for the whole visit. BP controlled. Labs fine. And a depression screen was negative.

Yeah. Image
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Or say.

I mean, other than sorry. Because I was.

I so was.
3/
 I’d never met you before this day. But when I walked in and saw your face cloaked in pain, I searched myself for something. . . anything . . . to help.

But what was there? You had funeralized your son. And yes, though he was “grown” as you said, still.

He was your son.
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Feb 5
1/
 Grady Primary Care Clinic, last week

Me: “I know other people have mentioned this to you already, but just wanted to check in about the #COVIDVaccine. I’m told you’re still thinking about it.”
You: “Yeah.”

*silence*

Me: “Wait, so yeah, you thinking about it?”
You: “Yeah.”
2/
 *laughter*

Me: “Would you be okay with me talking to you a little more about it? Like, to give you more things to consider as you deliberate about it?”
You: “Yeah.”

You gave one eyebrow a playful raise.

Me: “Yeah?”
You: “Yeah.”
3/
 You: “Although I think I done heard everything you ‘bout to say.”

I gave a hard nod and thought for a moment.

Me: “Okay. Then I need your help.”
You: “Help how?”
Me: “I have your ear but I sort of don’t know what to say. So I’m hoping you can tell me what’s stopped you.”
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1/
 You used such beautiful words. Words like “gingerly” to describe how you approached the physical therapy maneuvers you tried that morning. And “cacophony” in reference to the food tray someone accidentally knocked to the floor.

I loved them all.
2/
 Me: “You have such beautiful words. Such lovely and unexpected ones. It’s becoming my favorite thing on rounds this week.”
You: “Oh, aren’t words just grand? And so many to choose.”

You released a gentle chuckle. Then you coughed.

But gingerly.
3/
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Me: “So what’s the word?”

And each time you would smile, stare off for a beat, and then share one.

You: “The word is . . . milieu. Do you know it?”
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1/
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Him: "I like the way you look at me."
Me: "Excuse me, sir?"
Him: "I mean. . . I like how your eyes look at me."

His words caught me off guard. I’d only been there a few moments. It seemed misplaced.

Me: "I want to receive that. Tell me what you mean, sir."
2/
 Him: "It's like your eyes they look at me like . . . I don't know. Like I'm somebody worth you looking at.”
Me: *listening*
Him: “Like they happy to see me. Do that make sense?"
Me: "I think so."

*silence*
3/
 Him: "It’s like, when you came in here, you put your eyes on me and right off they told me. Like you made up your mind even 'fore you came in here. Like, 'So what about what he look like or what stuff he got going on. He worth my time.’ I could tell.”

I kept listening.
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