meritocracy, the most qualified people get the jobs it s i nlified people medicine. most doctors believe that. very few are willing to say it.. dr very few. marilyn singleton is f them. she s got a piece inn is the washington post called i m a black physician and i m appalled by mandated implicit bias training. ining. we are happy to have herfor join us today. dr. maryland singleton, doctor , thank you so much. for comingcomi on ng. what you ve practicedu medicine for a long time. for thank you for inviting me. oh, well, we re delightede de to have you. whatligh have you noticed that s changed in your profession, inpr medicine? ofession in recently? t it and why are you concerned about it? well, i m concerned one . i grew up in a time when there was segregation and we moveov from blacked fro people having r to black universities to where it was completely open. and i was able to go to topes we tier universities whererey pare my parents didn t necessarily do that.and and then wh
question. doctor , is there an organized i mean, that s that s so unwise. you ve got to think there s anon organized resistance that yout coul think that could actually happen. it could become compulsory. yeah. could bemost of the resistance e practicing physicians. but because anyone who disagrees with the mantra ds is dismissed or censored or deleted,agdismis or excluded frl national meetings, it appears as if there is a unified physensus of physicians. the cdc s own studicians.y fount 40% of pediatricians do not recommend the covid vaccines for children. that shoul id say a lot. and when i go to the doctors meetings, none of them have been wearing masks over the entire last year that shouldsay a lo say a lot. you have to see one doctor, any brave and learned man. thank you so much.u so m thanksuc. big so if you work at any kindapg of big company or apologies, but you probably hadie implicit bias training, one physician has enough self respect to sayoa enough doctor marilyn s
with his breathing. and internal bleeding into his abdomen, all which of can be quite painful. i think certain things that we want to be mindful of and we re evaluating the emts, it is a difficult job that can be dangerous and they re often doing the best they can with the equipment and training they receive. i think in addition to the standard medical training that we often talk about, i think one thing that is helpful is implicit bias training. when you see someone kind of slumped over next to a car with difficulty breathing and he s not communicating well, it is obvious in retrospect he has, you know, severe brain injuries and injured lungs. and i think if you see that person after a car accident, everyone is going to leap to the same conclusion, devastating injuries we should treat. i think there is a bias when someone is seen in police custody, we have to be aware of and train medical personnel to recognize and deal with so they
that there was definitely areas where certainly, as charlie pointed up with the department of justice, there s also state laws that can, state legislators can come together, you know, one of the key things that george floyd act was considering was implicit bias training. which is important just because we may have biases against different types of people that we don t realize. there was many key parts of the legislation, including excessive use of force and areas around qualified immunity, which is really the standard for whether a police officer should be considered the same as people in other occupations when they essentially have a version of immunity around them right now, and making sure that we question whether that is the right approach in these cases of excessive use of force. so, there is a number of things