Dr. Sunita Sah
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And that didn't happen.
And that didn't happen.
And that didn't happen.
So I ended up having this CT scan. Why couldn't I just say no in that situation? It was safe for me to say no. It would have been effective. And yet something held me back. The only reason I had it was because the doctor told me to. So here's the doctor in a safe situation. She's even smiling. I can't say no. And I'm a doctor myself.
So I ended up having this CT scan. Why couldn't I just say no in that situation? It was safe for me to say no. It would have been effective. And yet something held me back. The only reason I had it was because the doctor told me to. So here's the doctor in a safe situation. She's even smiling. I can't say no. And I'm a doctor myself.
So I ended up having this CT scan. Why couldn't I just say no in that situation? It was safe for me to say no. It would have been effective. And yet something held me back. The only reason I had it was because the doctor told me to. So here's the doctor in a safe situation. She's even smiling. I can't say no. And I'm a doctor myself.
So what would I have done in this situation with George Floyd with a police officer wearing a gun? That's how difficult this is. It's terrifying when you think about it. And there was a survey of 1,700 crew members of commercial airlines. About half of them did not feel comfortable to speak up when they saw an error. Yeah.
So what would I have done in this situation with George Floyd with a police officer wearing a gun? That's how difficult this is. It's terrifying when you think about it. And there was a survey of 1,700 crew members of commercial airlines. About half of them did not feel comfortable to speak up when they saw an error. Yeah.
So what would I have done in this situation with George Floyd with a police officer wearing a gun? That's how difficult this is. It's terrifying when you think about it. And there was a survey of 1,700 crew members of commercial airlines. About half of them did not feel comfortable to speak up when they saw an error. Yeah.
So there's this psychological process that I call insinuation anxiety disorder. that I uncovered in my experiments. But the actual experience, I experienced it when I was having the CT scan. I knew this feeling for years and years. The name for it only came after I started doing research in it.
So there's this psychological process that I call insinuation anxiety disorder. that I uncovered in my experiments. But the actual experience, I experienced it when I was having the CT scan. I knew this feeling for years and years. The name for it only came after I started doing research in it.
So there's this psychological process that I call insinuation anxiety disorder. that I uncovered in my experiments. But the actual experience, I experienced it when I was having the CT scan. I knew this feeling for years and years. The name for it only came after I started doing research in it.
And insinuation anxiety is this aversive emotional state that we have when we believe that not complying with someone else will be a signal of distrust to that person. So it basically insinuates that the other person is incompetent, biased, corrupt and trustworthy in some way. And you don't want to give them that signal. And so the co-pilots telling the pilots, you haven't observed this.
And insinuation anxiety is this aversive emotional state that we have when we believe that not complying with someone else will be a signal of distrust to that person. So it basically insinuates that the other person is incompetent, biased, corrupt and trustworthy in some way. And you don't want to give them that signal. And so the co-pilots telling the pilots, you haven't observed this.
And insinuation anxiety is this aversive emotional state that we have when we believe that not complying with someone else will be a signal of distrust to that person. So it basically insinuates that the other person is incompetent, biased, corrupt and trustworthy in some way. And you don't want to give them that signal. And so the co-pilots telling the pilots, you haven't observed this.
You're doing something wrong here. Like, I don't think we should do that. It's really difficult.
You're doing something wrong here. Like, I don't think we should do that. It's really difficult.
You're doing something wrong here. Like, I don't think we should do that. It's really difficult.
And I see it in experiments in the hospital as well in surveys. Nurses can't speak up when they see a colleague making an error for the same reason. Wow.
And I see it in experiments in the hospital as well in surveys. Nurses can't speak up when they see a colleague making an error for the same reason. Wow.