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Aug 28, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
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.
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.
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Jan 5, 2021 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
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/
Jan 4, 2021 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
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/
Jun 4, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
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
May 27, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
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
May 23, 2020 • 50 tweets • 12 min read
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.
I distinctly remember at the beginning of #Ramadan I told one of my friends how I was going to miss running outside during this month....and she suggested that I just go on my daily run after Iftar...when the sun is down. /1
Today that same friend texted me the story of #AhmaudArbery and profusely apologized for being so insensitive and not recognizing that I don’t have the same privileges as some. /2
