Thank you so much for your support Javeed Sukhera MD PhD !!

TY Claretta Bellamy for reporting on an important study about - How Online Racism Hurts the Mental Health of Black Youth. nbcnews.com/health/kids-he… via @nbcnews | Sharing space with Dr. Michael Lindsey Amanda Joy Calhoun, MD, MPH A. Maxie-Moreman, PhD is a pleasure; much more work to be done.

'We cannot fully control patients’ language. But we can control our response,' writes Amanda Joy Calhoun, MD, MPH. 'In my experience, when I’ve told patients that I won’t allow hate speech, they used it less, and sometimes even apologized.' Read more: nej.md/479fDLe

Subjecting young Black people in crisis to the N-word harms them twice: first they’re hit by hate speech and then, often, by clinicians who stand by and allow racist behavior to occur — or even defend it. Read the Points of View article by Amanda Joy Calhoun, MD, MPH: nej.md/479fDLe

Racism from patients is a violent rite of passage for Black doctors. So are the excuses and dismissals from White colleagues. About a year ago, a patient called Amanda Joy Calhoun, MD, MPH, a Child Psychology Fellow at Yale School of Medicine, the n-word for the first time. 🧵