Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH @pre_rad Twitter profile

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

I would slip out of the back doors of my medical school into the back doors of our cancer hospital for my after hours infusions. I would always carry the ID bracelet, so I wouldn't forget to take it off. I was thin. It was seen as fashionable.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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Here's the thing. As a Black medical student and resident, I have saved Black patients lives when this would not have happened otherwise. I am deeply troubled that it's true. But it is true. The stories I could tell you.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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It will always be the (white) public health nutrition people. Like my sworn enemies since MPH times. An apple a day does not keep the doctor away when access to both apples and doctors are shaped by structural racism.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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4 years

It was hard for me to hide in plain sight. But I wanted to be treated like a full human being, and I saw how my profession treats people with cancer. Black people with cancer. How the world does. And, he didn't owe us a whisper about his illness.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

He seemed like someone who did what he loved for as long as he was able in a world that remains unfair in a million ways. I'm deep in the collective grief. And thinking of his family.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

No one: Me: Are doctors the worst patients or is it just weird for you to take care of someone without the tremendous information asymmetry and power differential who may be able to exercise their agency more definitively? 🤔

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

2 years

I'm not good with the way that clinicians are posting about patients that they work with on their social media. I'm sure there are very specific situations when it's ethically OK. I usually find it deeply troubling. I don't want to recognize myself on my clinician's social media.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

1 year

When I was a medical student I eventually just had to say "I'm going to leave now" because after trying the "anything else I can help with" and even the "when is a good time for me to end for the day" I would be there until 9pm with an expectation to be back at 3:30am. MS3.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

Advice for the next time I guess? When someone calls you a "hero," or a group of people "heroes," it's usually a setup for profound, intentional neglect. Heroes aren't human. They don't need care, understanding, safety, meal breaks. They don't have boundaries. They can be used.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

I cannot be the Black doctor for every Black patient. And the reason that a Black patient survives should not be because they have a Black doctor. And there should be many, many more Black doctors simply as an end in and of itself. It isn't utilitarian, some "diversity" goal.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

#DNRTulane To #MedTwitter - If Dr. Dennar's story isn't immediately recognizable to you, it means that 1) you don't actually know any Black people well enough to be trusted with our stories and 2) you don't actually know yourselves or your own healthcare systems.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

I didn't properly estimate how much of adult life is just saying "Yikes" in your head and then figuring out if you also need to say it out loud.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

And this, in an of itself, doesn't make me an exceptional doctor. It makes me a Black doctor in an exceptionally anti-Black system. I resent it deeply every time. Particularly the fact that there is really so little that I can do.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

But it is what it is, for now. And what it is, for now, is a healthcare system where a Black doctor, a Black medical team, can actually be the reason that a Black patient survives.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

Let me stop lurking for #BlackinCancerWeek and say 👋🏾 I've had cancer #bcsm #lcsm I treat cancer ⚛️ @UNC_SOM I write + speak about cancer @TEDMED @elemental I'm a cancer #equity researcher It can be *a lot* but it's very aligned 🙏🏾 #BICRollCall

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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3 years

I see your "historically" marginalized and I'll raise you *presently* marginalized.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

This is a terrible, harmful take. And I'm sure it is unfortunately quite common among physicians. Patients (aka people) should be able to determine how and when they wish to receive information that is *about them*. Paternalism must go.

Emily Porter, M.D.

@dremilyportermd

3 years

Imagine finding out your unborn baby had a terminal chromosomal abnormality. At 11pm. On your iPhone. The CURES Act is harmful for patients. Not every piece of medical information should be immediately available. It further erodes down the strained physician-patient relationship.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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4 years

Blocked: my #BlackintheIvory story on @elemental . We have to attend to who is "policing" the pipeline. Black physicians succeed despite the structures in place, not because of them. We can change this, now. Thanks to @sarahphumphreys for the opportunity!

Leaders in Medicine are Blocking Future Black Doctors

My story happened 20 years ago, but it’s still happening today

elemental.medium.com

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

Hey. Hi. I'm considering putting together a talk for cancer care providers that focuses on *language.* The language that we use to talk about patients, aka our fellow human beings who are alive in the world and deserving of dignity and love. ❤️

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

How interesting it is to be a Black person who has had breast cancer who is now helping to treat people with breast cancer while it is breast cancer awareness month. So glad to be here ("here" defined very broadly). And also pray for me when you think about it pls and ty. 💗😬🙏🏾

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

The clinic. The human to human part. Like it's just so good. My deep wish is that healthcare would commit itself to retaining those of us who are really good in the clinic. Because our attention and talents are often rewarded much better elsewhere.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

Deeply personal/professional and hopefully illustrative: my latest in @elemental 🖤 “When the oncologist left, my mother looked at me and said ‘Is that how doctors talk to each other?’ It was clear that she meant ‘with respect.’ I hung my head.”

What Happens to Black Cancer Patients

‘What would have happened if my parents did not have an oncologist-in-training as their daughter? What happens to the Black patients?’

elemental.medium.com

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

2 years

It's not funny "haha" more funny "tragic" to see people who previously vehemently denied the role of racism in health outcomes become racism scholars because you know, grants.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

6 years

A deeply personal story on how we hold uncertainty in an era of precision: p53 and Me. Thanks to all who have read, shared. @NEJM @harvardmed

p53 and Me | NEJM

Just before beginning medical school, a woman who’s survived a childhood rhabdomyosarcoma and is facing breast and lung cancers discovers she has Li–Fraumeni syndrome. Though her p53 mutation won’t...

www.nejm.org

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

2 years

If the interaction was hard for you..."inspiring" for you... educational for you...I hope that you have a group of colleagues that you're able to debrief with to hold space. I hope that you have a therapist to talk with. I hope that you have a professional development practice.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

2 years

This isn't a sub-Tweet, this is happening daily. I understand the impulse to want to share your life with your mutuals. This isn't just your life, though. Even if it doesn't violate HIPPA by the letter, what is the spirit of confidentiality?

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

“Is professionalism a tool or is it a weapon?” It was rhetorical, obviously. Better to take a look at the profession. #MedTwitter #MedBikini

Leaders in Medicine are Blocking Future Black Doctors

My story happened 20 years ago, but it’s still happening today

elemental.medium.com

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

Deadlines feel kinda harsh in a pandemic do you know what I mean?

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

I'm not sure who needs this, but it's almost always better to say "Black people." Or "Black physicians." Or "Black patients." Instead of taking the word "Black" and pluralizing it. "Black" isn't the noun you may think it is and person-first language is just way better. 👍🏾

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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4 years

Merry merry🎄

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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4 years

What a labor of love this life has been. Not easy...never easy. But here we are: My #TEDMED 2020 talk on what I have learned about being a patient, being a doctor, and being alive. @TEDMED @TEDTalks

The courage to live with radical uncertainty

At 27-years old, Compassion-Driven Oncologist Shekinah Elmore was accepted to medical school and diagnosed with two different cancers, lung cancer and breast cancer. Despite all odds and in a period...

www.tedmed.com

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

Deeply thankful for @projectn95 for providing me with a (now distributed) small stockpile of verified N95s during the second wave and now a (just shipped) re-up that I can continue to give out until such time as government agencies decide they would like to, you know, help.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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1 year

Learning is endless. Undeniably. But humans are finite. Also clear expectations -> fair(er) evaluations. I cannot actually read your mind, though medical training has made me about as good as possible at that unfortunately. 😭

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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3 years

The work is understanding and dismantling the fundamentally anti-Black system that continues to produce the outcomes that it is designed to produce. Nothing less will suffice.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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2 years

Is it a reasonable expectation that you would not be posting what happened in a clinical encounter on social media? What am I missing, honestly?

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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4 years

I want Black mistakes and second chances and failures. I want to be able to be as human as I see my colleagues being. Late for a morning conference without it impugning your character. A typo in an email without it meaning you lack the ability to succeed.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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3 years

This means you have much work to do. That work is not #DEI work. It is not "implicit" bias training. It is not organizing lectures on "diversity." It is not "disparities" research. It is not putting a #BLM pin on your coat or hashtag in your bio, radical though this may feel.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

5 years

Hey, this is what a doctor looks like! (It’s me!) Proud to be a physician every day. #NationalDoctorsDay #WhatADoctorLooksLike #WomenWhoCurie #RadOnc @BrighamWomens

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

It's my first official day at @UNC_SOM @UNC_Lineberger along with @danalynnecasey . We're both safer at home because, you know. 🏠 I'm celebrating by wearing an outfit that feels attending-y and working on my 40 (!) online modules. Honestly, I'm very, very happy. 💙

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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1 year

So glad to join the celebrations with my @NIH_LRP award. 🎉 Thank you to @theNCI and my @UNC_Lineberger and @UNCMalawi mentors! And to @NnekaUfereMD for generously sharing application wisdom. Here's to continuing that research persistence 👍🏿

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

If you are or you know of any great graduate students @UNCpublichealth @UNC_SOM @corp_UNC who want to work with me on global health equity research writ truly broadly, let me know! 👋🏿 Paid opportunity starting March 2021.🎉

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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3 years

One year ago, this is what I was doing. It was a singular experience at the precipe of a new world. I am grateful that this is what patients find when they inevitably search the internet for their doctor: a fellow traveler to places unknown. via @TEDTalks

The courage to live with radical uncertainty

When your future is uncertain, how do you keep moving forward? In this courageous talk, oncologist and cancer survivor Shekinah Elmore shares how she embraced life after a rare genetic diagnosis --...

www.ted.com

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

In these threads we redact the details of our own stories. To protect the guilty. Who have power and sway over our jobs. Of our ability to continue to do what we love. Because once we point out the problem? We become the problem.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

2 years

Still processing this but if you're interested, my keynote is the last part of this wonderful @iaeaorg #IAEAGC66 Scientific Forum Opening Session. I talk about being lucky and the urgency of taking luck out of the calculus of cancer survival.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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3 years

Ready 😂

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

Why is it so revolutionary to believe that people can decide rightly and for themselves when and where and how they want to receive diagnostic information? I mean I know why. Since I am a physician and it's paternalism all the way down (amongst various other, interlocking isms).

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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1 year

I think medical students want to learn and know that the best learning can be enmeshed in unpredictable human chaos and skill and generosity. At unsociable hours. And I also think that if it's another Thursday in the hospital...there will be other opportunities.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

1 year

So so so excited to be among the CDA recipients this year! I am definitely behind on all emails, including those with good news...but thank you to so many including @DrLisaCarey @UNC_Lineberger @UNCMalawi

Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation

@ConquerCancerFd

1 year

Introducing the 2023 #ConquerCancer Grant & Award recipients! $11M in awards to over 400 recipients in 33 countries. These grants support a diverse set of #onc professionals to help accelerate #CancerReserch breakthroughs. #OncAlert #ASCO23 @ASCO

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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4 years

I don't have a sound cloud but I do have a @TEDMED talk 👇🏾 Partnership is so critical to empathic, equitable oncology care. Let's make a system that cares for Black patients. If we do that, all patients will be well cared for. I guarantee it.

The courage to live with radical uncertainty

When your future is uncertain, how do you keep moving forward? In this courageous talk, oncologist and cancer survivor Shekinah Elmore shares how she embraced life after a rare genetic diagnosis --...

www.ted.com

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

Them: How long are you going to be on this rotation? Me: I hope for a while! I'm one of the new attendings ☺️ (I posted this because it felt genuinely good natured and funny. And I love my new rotation! 🤣)

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

It's amazing how medical folks continue to miss what is *actually* important to patients. Transport is important. Parking cost is important. This is financial and logistical suffering (pall care folks understand this) and it can often predominate. Thank you Dr. @fumikochino 👏🏾♥️

Fumiko Ladd Chino, MD, FASCO

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4 years

I have fielded insults (“Really? This is what you consider research? No better ideas?”) for doing this study. Physicians make fun that @JAMAOnc felt it was important enough to publish. But parking costs have real negative effects on patients & families.👇

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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4 years

“You will (hopefully) have better days. You will (definitely) have worse ones. That is the problem with life. It is joyful and terrible and without good alternatives.” @pre_rad

Five Tips for Living with Radical Uncertainty

A Black oncologist and cancer survivor passes on her wisdom

link.medium.com

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

If you consider yourself a "global health" scholar/researcher/advocate but don't consider yourself interested in "local disparities" work...

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

1 year

But I would like to go if they were cool with it? We'll teach you, they said. Bingo. I went to the hospital to meet the team to go in a van to another state for an operation. They taught me to scrub in. They taught me so much. I was very tired. But this was an optional activity.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

My father was a #USPS mail carrier for his entire career. It was a functional, affordable, excellent system. He was never paid much but it was a stable job. We had health insurance that allowed our family not to go bankrupt with my childhood health conditions.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

Imagine instead the counterfactual. You call and call and call a healthcare system to get back a tensely awaited medical result. One that may shatter your world. No one answers. You leave message after message.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

Reached inbox zero! Just had to move states and change institutions. 10/10 would recommend. 💙

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

OK Google, please play songs that will help me relax while writing a grant and being on call for the first time as a new attending.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

Can I announce this now? #ASCO20 #ConquerCancer YIA. More soon. Onward.

Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation

@ConquerCancerFd

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Congratulations to the #ASCO20 #ConquerCancer Grant & Award Recipients #CancerResearch #WeCan

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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4 years

We live in North Carolina now! People are very friendly. For example, got a welcome note from a neighbor with info like trash day, neighbors listserv, and the fact that a snake had gone into our siding about a month earlier and they had contacted the management company...

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3️⃣ years (+/-) since I took 1️⃣ day off from my pediatric rad onc rotation for the most joyful city hall wedding. ✨ 📷 @photosteph

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

This isn't about "relationship." We must allow others as much choice as possible if it's going to be called "relationship." For example, PSA values, I just ask "What's the best way for you to receive this result?" For some people I say "you don't have to look, I can look."

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

There's *endless* room for improvement in health communication and shared decision making. Rapport, empathy, accountability, and justice in healthcare. And the CURES act *is* part of that improvement.

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@pre_rad

3 years

I got a genetic test in New York right before I moved to Boston. I was told that I would have to go back to New York to receive my result in person. I obviously said that I would not be doing that. But that is what they thought was "best." By whose metric?

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

2 years

@jack_turban @drjessigold @Harvard Respectfully, it highlights a different point.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

Finally when you're in an important meeting you get a call back. But since it's a "devastating result" they leave a message to call back. You know what the result must be and yet you don't "know." So you call back again. And again.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

1 year

Everyone still has time to update their PPT. I don't want to see the boxes one.

Visualizing Health Equity: One Size Does Not Fit All Infographic

Download and share this image to #PromoteHealthEquity, which means a fair and just opportunity for all.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

I'm livid. But unsurprised. And just so angry. Like, if I started to list all of the reasons why, tonight? I would never stop. I'm afraid to even start. The totality of it. Astounding and yet in perfect continuity with everything.

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@pre_rad

4 years

For those who are interested in the bundt phase, I don't know how to food 📷, but the pan + recipe combo made a moist, pound cake crumb with canelé-like, caramel crisp edge and I guess I'm starting a small bakery?

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6 years

My surreal experience as patient and provider, artfully and candidly rendered by @statnews @OrlyFarber I love what I do. #RadOncWomen

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

You can be what you can't see. It is not easy and it is not fair. Neither mandatory nor assured. But so many of us are actually trying to do something no one has ever done. And so that's a lonely, hard, beautiful, necessary way of walking through the world.

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2 years

Survivorship care is a subset of palliative care.

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4 years

Zoom Graduation is currently loading!

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3 years

One of my patients today told me "Take care of yourself so you can take care of me!" As it should be. We, clinicians, are humans and this is care work. We are deserving of care. It's amazing to me that this needs to be stated mid-pandemic. But here we are I guess.

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@pre_rad

2 years

I would delete that Tweet. If it were me.

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@pre_rad

3 years

Finally someone answers and tells you that the genetic counselor that you are working with isn't in the office...so the person filling in can't tell you the result...because "empathy." Sure. You go back to the meeting but obviously you can't be present.

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I am *so* thrilled for this talk! What a pleasure and a privilege. And I'm so thankful to @ASTRO_org @ldawsonmd for allowing me to join from @UNCRadOnc @UNC_Lineberger in this hybrid way.

ASTRO

@ASTRO_org

3 years

The #ASTRO21 Presidential Symposium: Advancing Person Centered Care Through Innovation kicks off this Sunday at 8 AM CT with an Intro session with Dr. Laura Dawson and Dr. Shekinah Elmore, as they introduce the theme. Follow along on social! #RadOnc

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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Had to drag N95 masked toddler off the plane yesterday at 12AM ET. He was hungry, tired, ears popping, feeling all the things. Screaming, crying, not throwing up fortunately. And still, in all the wildness, he screamed for the benefit of the plane: I AM GOING TO DO A BETTER JOB.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

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3 years

The joy of the #RO job pointed out by the wonderful medical student that we worked with today. We have an hour to talk with a patient in a new consult. An hour. A luxury? In capitalism, yes. A necessity and embarrassing minimum for actual, person-centered care? Also yes.

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@pre_rad

1 year

Also, the night before the day before I was supposed to start my MS3 orientation I got a page on the transplant student pager. I... answered it. There was an opportunity to go along for part of a transplant. I said that I didn't know how to... anything...

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@pre_rad

3 years

"Can you just let me know how I might proceed since you make the rules?" - Me, an oncologist, trying to do oncology but failing in the face of insurance companies #FixPriorAuth

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

2 years

Going to Tweet a paper here in case we still do that. #radonc resident perspectives on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. A *national* resident survey. Very proud of @VonettaMW for *carrying* this work. And crucial inputs from many!

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

Here I am on #WorldCancerDay That's it. That's the Tweet.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

2 years

We can't do this anymore. Firearms are the problem. A murderer can buy a semiautomatic weapon and kill four people an hour later. I can't get Lupron approved to give a patient an hour later. Everything is wrong and we can't do this anymore.

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS

@oni_blackstock

2 years

My heart is heavy thinking abt Dr. Preston Phillips who was murdered in the recent Tulsa mass shooting. Fewer than 2% of orthopedic surgeons are Black. He graduated from @harvardmed & trained at @BIDMChealth . Just thinking abt how many hurdles he had to overcome in his life.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

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Here is a #BlackintheIvory oldie but goodie. I was a first year, first semester student at my dream school @BrownUniversity . I ended up the engineering section (vs the easier premed section) of intro gen chem. The other conflicted with my creative nonfiction seminar.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

What if you inadvertently taught your three year old most/many of the words to the musical Rent and he now wants to perform the different numbers from the show how many calls from daycare would I, I mean you, be expecting?

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

Progression-free survival...I get it. I also deeply regret that we use it so much. It means something. But it doesn't mean what we use it to mean colloquially, which is freedom from your cancer bothering you. That's what I want as a patient. Freedom from bother from cancer.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

2 years

#ASTRO22 has been deeply meaningful to me. Much of the deep "why" will go in my journal and be shared with my friends. ☺️ And. And. I was reminded how much others have done for me. And not for me, specifically, always. But for all of us who were told we could not exist.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

2 years

It's wild how many times I'm explaining Mark Cubans Cost Plus Pharmacy in clinic visits. It feels like I'm in an alternate universe, like okay CVS and your health insurance have decided 30 pills is 2k and out of pocket at CVS it's 1k but at Mark Cuban's place it's 5.30.

Lea (Nine Muses)

@shopninemuses

2 years

Just used Mark Cubans new pharmacy because I’m currently uninsured… 30 day supply of three medications was only $35. It would have been $200+ at a regular pharmacy

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

What a year this week has been.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

Timeline (global + individual) is appropriately somber. And. Grateful to have romantically but civically married this former internet stranger Boston local teacher coach four years ago in brutalist city hall glory on a day off from my peds rad onc rotation.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

8/8/18 @MAAHMuseum . Technically this was a renewal of vows, because the person I married wanted to gather our community after our courthouse nuptials. Glad we did it was a beautiful day.💗 @photosteph 📷

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

🙌🏾 Love your patients. Love your colleagues. Love your (chosen) family. Love yourself. The institution can be a vehicle. But on that day when you can no longer work...they will replace you. You are irreplaceable to the individuals who you have loved and who have loved you back.

Allison Bond, MD

@AllisonRBond

4 years

The institution will never love you back. #TipsForNewDocs

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

When I tell this story to Black mentees it is a lightbulb moment for many. We are not often allowed to fail. Even in minor ways. And if we do there aren't often second chances. Forget Black Excellence. We are excellent in the academy, we had to be to even get a foot in the door.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

So for any Black premeds or medical students, my DMs are always open. One failure is one failure and there are many of us who will still fight for your opportunity to thrive. 🖤 #BlackMedTwitter

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

“I’m a radiation oncologist.” - why have you misspelled "radiologist" - patient asks if you have seen Chernobyl - patient asks if they will glow in the dark “I am an energy healer.” - sounds very organic - good Instagram influencer bio - might be a Marvel superhero

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

*Paywall alert* but I write about receiving news, specifically life-altering genetic news, below. I am a physician and I love having guidance on how to navigate the *meaning* of the news. But I would have preferred to get the result on my Android. 📲

p53 and Me | NEJM

Just before beginning medical school, a woman who’s survived a childhood rhabdomyosarcoma and is facing breast and lung cancers discovers she has Li–Fraumeni syndrome. Though her p53 mutation won’t...

www.nejm.org

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

4 years

Can you even call it a #globalhealth panel if there are no Black experts involved? I know what the answer is and I know what it should be. And please do not @ me, US folks, unless you're as familiar with Dr. Helene Gayle as you are Dr. Paul Farmer.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

2 years

I mean every time I talk about the need to improve access to cancer treatment for excluded people, academics want to come with "what about prevention" arguments. What about it? We can't pit prevention and treatment at odds, we have to imagine more for all of us.

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Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

@pre_rad

3 years

🙋🏿‍♀️ Shekinah Elmore, Assistant Prof @UNCRadOnc @UNC_Lineberger @UNCMalawi and itinerant cancer "survivor." All of my research & clinical interests converge on providing excellent, joyful, affirming multi-D cancer care for Black folks. #BlackinCancerRollCall #BlackinCancerWeek21

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