Dear White People in Emergency Medicine

Cortlyn Brown; Kimberly Brown; Italo Brown; Rosny Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.08.004

Dear White People in Emergency Medicine

Ann Emerg Med. 2021 Nov;78(5):587-592. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.08.004. Epub 2021 Sep 29.

Authors

Cortlyn Brown¹, Kimberly Brown², Italo Brown³, Rosny Daniel⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Atrium Health Carolinas, Charlotte, NC. Electronic address: cortlyn.brown@atriumhealth.org.
² Baptist Memorial Hospital-Desoto, Southaven, MS.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

PMID: 34598829
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.08.004

Abstract

We, emergency physicians of color, are not okay. We are living and working through a pandemic that has disproportionately affected our communities and a year in which we cannot escape our lived experiences of police brutality. We see you, dear White people in emergency medicine, and are glad you want to support us. However, let us guide you in supporting our cause.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Black or African American / psychology*
COVID-19 / epidemiology
Emergency Medicine*
Humans
Organizational Culture*
Pandemics
Physicians / psychology*
Racism*
SARS-CoV-2
United States / epidemiology
Violence
White People*