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This week has not been easy for @StanfordEMED residents and our colleagues throughout @StanfordMed. Smart, well-intentioned people neglected vulnerable hardworking residents and fellows. Unacceptable and emblematic of the position of house staff throughout the nation. 1/x
Our housestaff deserved better and I am so proud of their actions this week, in support of their peers and all patient facing staff/colleagues.
Credit @Blomkalns and the clinical chairs for fixing this. And to @StanfordMed for admitting a mistake and working to make amends. 2/x
Credit @Blomkalns and the clinical chairs for fixing this. And to @StanfordMed for admitting a mistake and working to make amends. 2/x
But this is not only a @StanfordMed issue. Be certain, this is happening all across the country to greater and lesser degrees. And hospitals with disparities such as ours this week are a warning shot across the bow for this country and the world. 3/x
If a place like Stanford can make such a mistake — and I believe our leaders are not evil warlords, but error prone humans — then think what will happen to other communities.
The nursing home who gets the shots vs the blacker one down the street who doesn’t. It will happen. 4/x
The nursing home who gets the shots vs the blacker one down the street who doesn’t. It will happen. 4/x
Rage came from disparity at the front lines this week. Heartbreak from true bioethical and social justice dilemmas are coming our way. There will be enough vaccine eventually... here.. but not everywhere, and certainly not throughout the world. 5/x
Stanford was a microcosm of disparity within the 0.00001.% (fake estimate) of the world’s population who had the privilege to get the vaccine first.
Stanford will do better this week. Ask yourselves how to learn from us and what to do when the tough issues roost for you. 6/6
Stanford will do better this week. Ask yourselves how to learn from us and what to do when the tough issues roost for you. 6/6
