Folks in biomedical academia, especially public health: Please stop inventing exceptions for your own fields. We recognize stress and overwork as serious health problems. OUR workers are not an exception to this. If we willfully perpetuate it, we are part of the problem. 1/?

"But medical students need to be able to work under pressure". STOP. You are part of the problem. They can learn to work under pressure without putting them in an artificial pressure-pot. Sacrificing good students for some elitist nonsense is creating a public health problem. 2/?

"But our research is so important, my grad students will prove their willingness to sacrifice their well-being to save lives" STOP STOP STOP what are you thinking? That's not only bullshit, it's self-serving narcissistic bullshit! 3/?

You are literally saying in the same breath that this work is indispensably important, and that you will gladly dispense with the people doing it by sacrificing them at the altar of your inflated ego. If the work is important, the people doing the work are important too. 4/?

The question we need to be asking ourself is "does the way we are conducting this work do harm", and there can be NO EXCEPTIONS to our definition of "harm". If we are harming ourselves in our commission of harm mitigation, have we mitigated harm? No. We are perpetuating harm. 5/?

We cannot continue to do violence to those inside our halls while claiming to be concerned about the violence problem outside our halls without marking ourselves as hypocrites. In our actions and research, we *must* ask ourselves if we are perpetuating the problem. 6/?

If we are perpetuating the problem, we *must* find alternatives that do not cause harm. This applies to everything; workloads, meeting timing, breaks, even student surveys; is the way we do this a burden? Is this perpetuating harm? And if the answer is yes, we must stop. 7/7