1/ The uncomfortable reality is that those of us in #medicine share more with the police than we want to believe. We both make life and death decisions. And we both operate in systems with strong racist legacies that continue to disproportionately harm BIPOC. #jacobblake in OUR

2/ custody now, #medtwitter and he is at risk of poorer outcomes at our hands just as he is from the police. Let us not allow our intense focus on dismantling the police distract us from the racism in our own house. The House of Medicine needs to be rebuilt from scratch right

3/ along with the other oppressive and racist structures in our society. We must own our complicity in the harm of BIPOC so that we can repair and reubuild. #JacobBlake deserves that. As do all of our Black patients. #BLM @APAPsychiatric @AmerMedicalAssn