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Dr. Sunita Sah

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
988 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

So I had the knowledge in that situation and I should have said no. And yet I just couldn't say no. And so I was then wheeled into the room with a CT scan and the technician and I couldn't even say no then. I would just ask questions in this polite way like, oh, it's not a lot of radiation, is it?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

Even though I knew because I wanted them to pick up on my discomfort and say, oh, do you not want this?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

Even though I knew because I wanted them to pick up on my discomfort and say, oh, do you not want this?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

Even though I knew because I wanted them to pick up on my discomfort and say, oh, do you not want this?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sunita Sah (on defiance)

You're doing something wrong here. Like, I don't think we should do that. It's really difficult.