Thread by @sachapie

Leana Wen didn’t get much doctoring or opining yesterday because she was busy blocking ppl. A few ppl she claims are bullying and harassing. Here are the ppl #BlockedbyWen a 🧵

The most flabbergasting:

@oni_blackstock a respected black female MD who works for health equity

@thrasherxy a queer black journalist/author

@tylerblack32 MD, advocate for kids mental health.

@acweyand a female pediatric oncologist

@LisaMcCray a black woman journalist

@MDaware ED doc

➕a whole lotta tweeps who politely told her that her whine-fest was full of shit.

Then she sucked up sympathy from either outright sycophants or the usual suspects who are nice and will always lend their support to calls for civility no matter how suspect the author is, and Wen is nothing but SUS.

@CNN and @washingtonpost you both employ Leana. Look at the people she has blocked. Is this appropriate for someone who represents your institutions? Dr. BLACKSTOCK? Is this who you want to feature?

Wen makes A LOT OF MONEY for being a public figure. It’s fair to block the trolls but her claim is she is facing misogyny and racism. The people she chose to block tell a different story. They show someone with a remarkably fragile ego who wished to remain unchallenged.

Wen IS fragile. Her tenure both in Boston, then at Planned Parenthood demonstrate that. In both places she had handbooks created detailing how to interact with her.

In Boston a handbook told employees to write down everything Wen indicates she needs, “including for herself” and to make sure to randomly look at Wen in case she’s randomly communicating something.

buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoco…

At Planned Parenthood people were told to always answer her overnight emails first. She was such a poor manager and leaded that she lasted eight months then had a very public exit.

nytimes.com/2019/07/17/us/…

Wen had a fit yesterday, a temper tantrum only the worst kind of bad boss can throw. The public didn’t get her handbook and the marketplace of ideas that is Twitter (for better and for worse) isn’t lulled into complacency by her endless credentialing.

Instead of spending the day being the VIP Leana thinks she is, she spent the day acting like the insecure, emotionally stunted child that is at her very core: never good enough; pushed too far and too fast. She blocked smart, caring people who are important voices in a pandemic.

This is someone who doesn’t understand how to care for anyone but herself. We are in a pandemic. We have lost over ONE MILLION lives in two years. We are going to deal with this for generations. We cannot afford for our public health to be in the hands of someone like Leana Wen.

What Leana Wen did yesterday was egregious. She is a PUBLIC FIGURE and she did not improve discourse. Instead shut down dissent and cloaked her actions in words meant to give her the power of victimhood.

And really, DR. BLACKSTOCK.

SMDH

More people to add to the list:

@denise_dewald pediatric sleep medicine specialist

@gorskon surgeon/scientist

This 🧵 has taken off. I’m grateful that anyone reads my rantings. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼