Thomas Elliott MD

Pediatrician by way of @JHPedsResidency | @NCSP_UCLA Scholar | Health Equity Advocate | he/him | 🎮🎾🦀 | views are my own

[DocMcCafferty (She/Hers) @DocMcCafferty]

Our #Tweetiatrician #AAPAdvocacy campaign centers the National Youth Mental Health Crisis:

- 1 in 5 children have a mental health condition, 50% before 14y
- Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death in 10-24yo
- Only 20% receive appropriate care from a specialist

And Covid,

[janel 🇵🇸 @pband_nelly]

Black therapists struggle to share mental health knowledge on TikTok - CNN

Featuring: ⁦@drpatriceberry⁩ ⁦@dralfiee⁩ and I!! https://t.co/nn7mhiGqjb

[gloria alamrew, renowned Pisces 🌒 @GloriaAlamrew]

I want a soft life. I want ease. I want relaxation. I do not want to hustle. I do not want to grind. Grinding wears you down to brittle nothingness. I do not want to work my life away. I want enjoyment and rest, not as rewards but as practice. My life will be a practice in joy.

[Community Movement Builders @CommunityMvt]

Black Power does not mean Black faces in high places enforcing white supremacy.

[Magically Delicious. @psychonegraut]

The African American urge to say “chile” when you want to communicate a myriad of emotions in one word.

[Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH @pre_rad]

The clinic. The human to human part. Like it's just so good.

My deep wish is that healthcare would commit itself to retaining those of us who are really good in the clinic.

Because our attention and talents are often rewarded much better elsewhere.

[Brittani James, MD @DrBrittaniJ]

Good morning ☀️

#antiracism101

[Christle Nwora, MD @ChristleNwora]

You can now pre order my first solo author publication on Target 😅💓

[Dr. CBS @drcbs_]

Moral of the story: distinguish between those who are against oppression and those who are against their personal experience of oppression. We conflate and confuse these people far too often.

[Dr. Alyasah Ali Sewell @aasewell]

My workshop on measuring racism is more than 75% full. I'll be discussing a research agenda inspired by the pioneering @PRBA_ISR course, "Methodological Issues in Quantitative Research on Race and Ethnicity" @ICPSRSummer. Tx @DrJaniceJ for inviting me to peek in now 15+ yrs ago.

[Thomas Elliott MD @TElliottMD]

@KJames_PhD Yes! Have been doing it for years. Allows me to get my thoughts out at inconvenient times but also start discussion when I feel like I'm ready. Usually use it more for professional stuff

[Thomas Elliott MD @TElliottMD]

And don't get me started on scheduled text messages...

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

Thank you “schedule send” function for making me seem organized and sensitive to time boundaries on email.

**Me composing all of my emails between 10pm and midnight and scheduling them to go out at 8 am the next morning.

[Jason C. Marvin, PhD (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇼 @JasonCMarvin]

It is irresponsible of faculty to continue perpetuating unrealistic expectations of graduate school admissions. These fixed notions about the “ideal candidate” are actively excluding qualified applicants, especially those from marginalized and/or minoritized backgrounds.

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

Every Black person has their own "tests" for protecting ourselves in discussions around racism.

Ways that we nudge and see if you can handle those conversations well, or if you're problematic, or outright racist.

If we're not talking to you about racism, that means you failed.

[J(enna) Wortham @jennydeluxe]

“At some point when you have proven yourself and fought your way into institutions that were not built for you, when you’ve proven you can compete and excel at the highest level, you have to decide that you are done forcing yourself in.” — @nhannahjones with ALL the right words.

[Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD, FAAP, FAIM @innodim]

Good morntint!
Academia/Medicine/Institutions: Solving problems by forming committees to create other committees to make recommendations for a taskforce to develop a council that will form a workgroup to create a committee is white supremacy theatre.

#DEICommitteeTrauma

[Uju Anya @UjuAnya]

History won’t judge them, because they write the history books.

[Ahmed Ali @DrAhmednurAli]

“The place in which I'll fit will
not exist until I make it.”

― James Baldwin