Dignity of Risk: Taking risks are opportunities for patients to flourish and experience the fullness of life. It is not up to clinics to protect patients from themselves. Classic confirmation bias common among clinicians. Great panel led by Dr Debjani Mukherjee et al #ASBH2022
Powerful presentation by @echohawkd3 on decolonizing data and moving towards health equity. I was totally ignorant of the fact that thousands of American Indian women were forcibly sterilized in the 60s and 70s https://t.co/HUg25E0Rha #ASBH22
Data Genocide: when white supremacy is embedded into the system, which defaults to white if race is left blank. This skews the numbers and therefore the funding, especially in vital data @echohawkd3#ASBH22
@echohawkd3 gives a profound edit to the recently popular equity image with an indigenous woman and a baby in a cradle board on her back who cuts a hole in the fence, and is headed into the more than human world #ASBH22
“We asked for PPE, and we instead received body bags” - we must address the reality of the genocide, of blood soaked land we stand on in every city across the United States.#ASBH22
@echohawkd3 “Western based views of equity are not working” - asking why are we showing equity pictures of people standing on boxes behind a fence, watching a baseball game when we should be asking why are we even watching the same game? #ASBH22
Abigail Echo Hawk (Pawnee) @echohawkd3 Director, Urban Indian Health Institute and EVP, Seattle Health Indian Board speaking at #ASBH22 calling attendees to look to the land we live on and food we eat to engage in actual practices of equity.
“You can’t be neutral on a moving train” - Howard Zinn. In “Confronting Culture Wars in Clinical Encounters” with C. Parker, J. Moskop and J. Garrett #ASBH22
Dr. Ersek as part of a plenary panel at #ASBH22 speaks to faith based organizations flipping the ageism script and honoring care for those who live in America’s nursing homes and highlights @providence Mt St Vincent in Seattle area
@pringlmillermd founder of @EquityDocs calls #ASBH22 attendees to take personal responsibility for the discriminatory climate of healthcare by being an Upstander not a bystander
@pringlmillermd founder of @EquityDocs speaking at #ASBH22 to hospital and medical culture are discriminatory toward BIPOC and women, compounding the structural reasons behind the great resignation in healthcare
Great questions answered by Kristen Riggan from Florida about NIPS testing in pregnancy: 1. Can it decrease maternal fetal mortality for BIPOC patients? No. 2. Does it increase early pregnancy terminations? No. #ASBH22
Great presentation by Medical Student Gabriella VanAken and fellow student on street medicine impact in Detroit on building mutual trustworthiness between medicine and patients during the pandemic #ASBH22