"I have never been more proud to be an emergency physician and to work with a truly amazing group of human beings," says @ColumbiaMed's @AngelaMMills. 2/ https://t.co/RAsRkWO148
Some data to chew on today from @AAMCtoday - only 4% of US med school faculty in 2019 were black. Only 2% of full professors are black, with only 0.7% being black women. Full breakdown by sex, race/ethnicity & rank in the link. https://t.co/W1kNDB9vML
Southeast US seeing the effects of reopening w/o proper systems in place https://t.co/EhsmAydthd
Huge surges in FLA, NC, SC, AL
@VP is wrong - we are not winning
https://t.co/2ExvzhkKRS
“People treat me different in uniform, because they only see the uniform,” he said. He added, “At the end of the day I am a black person who dons a blue uniform. I am a trans male. I walk in all of these worlds.” Having family members who are black & brown https://t.co/AQkTSMkBU5
Please read this great piece by colleague @smcdonaldMD in @nytimes . He is an African American NYC Emergency physician who breaks down the intersection and complexities of being a black EM physician in the middle of 2 pandemics. Pause , take a step back, and listen.
My friend and emergency medicine colleague @DrTsion Firew....
-fought ISIS by being a physician on the ground in Iraq.
-worked in NYC during covid.
-got covid.
-beat covid.
-flew to Ethiopia to help with covid there.
If that’s not the definition of badass, nothing is.
Another Black man was shot and killed by police. This time it was in #Atlanta.
Please don't say anything about how he resisted. Or took a taser. Or ran.
Instead, look in a mirror and ask yourself this:
Would deadly force have been used if this were you?
#wetired#BLM
Wow just learned so much more about how academic medical centers create and perpetuate racial and economic disparities in medicine. Great thread. We gotta do better. @DrTsion@SteflonMD@AngelaMMills@LemaPenelope