3 - Black Voices in Healthcare: Home
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
You're listening to the nocturnist. Black voices in health care. I'm Ashley McMullan. For me, home starts in Chicago, living with my grandparents.
What does “home” mean to the host and how does her upbringing shape her view of healthcare?
Home is the colored greens my Medea grew in the backyard. It's church all day Sunday, falling asleep and eating hard candy in the pews. Home is also Houston, Texas, where I was born and moved back to during grade school. It's a sound of rappers like Slim Thug, Mike Jones, and DJ Screw. It's the hottest summers with the coldest drinks and the best barbecue.
How does the narrator describe the contrast between growing up in Houston and practicing medicine in California?
The hospital where I took my first breath is the same hospital I learned medicine as a student at UT Houston. And while California may be where I grew as a doctor. Home will always be where my family is. As healthcare providers, most of us have had to leave our home states to go wherever our profession takes us.
Why do many healthcare providers feel compelled to leave their home states for training and work?
So whatever else home is, home is Complicated. This week we asked y'all to reflect on what home means to you. Is it a place? A feeling? Is it people? Is it food? Here are your voices. This is episode three. Home.
I woke up this morning to a really loud sound. Looked outside. and saw the butt of a bear Hm, maybe ten feet away from my tent as it walked by unfazed. See home this week for me is out in the eastern Sierras. Home usually is in Southern California. Primary care. Medical school faculty working my ass off. I'm just tired. Home is supposed to be Where Everything comes together where you are refreshed, replenished. I used to love singing the song from the whiz. When I think of home, I think of a place where there's love overflowing. Um, I used to sing that with my brothers and sisters. And man we get into it. But home still I turned around and see a computer and and home I still know that uh gosh I gotta write this paper and home, oh my goodness, I've got these people who are gonna report to me and home, oh my gosh, I've got these administrative reports and home I've got another diversity meeting to try to look
responsible in. And Even with love overflowing, home wasn't home. So I decided to climb up here into the eastern Sierras. Right now I'm looking up at trees and clouds and stuff I would not see in Southern California 'cause I'd be looking down at a screen. I'd be looking at our COVID dashboard going up, up, up as the email that just came through on my phone says we're back into surge planning because the ICU again is getting close to capacity, thinking, man, my nurse is gonna get pulled to the ICU again, so I'm gonna have some float nerf who does not know how to help me. And how Less am I than I'm able to pull myself away to find a new home, that I can lick out my tent and watch a bear walk by And I'm listening to the stream.
Ам лисненьту. The air moved through these pine trees above my head. Watching the ants on the ground and I know we're all home together.
Okay, we're starting over. That's a bowel yeah. You also fly outside! I am laying under these amazing oak trees that are creating this canopy above me. uh listening to the breeze while my children are playing in the sand. The thing I was thinking about when I was looking at these oak trees and hearing the wind. is how something that has been stolen from us as black people is disconnection from nature, from the earth, from the thing that grounds us and from which we came. And how camping and natural environments are not places where we feel ourselves to be welcomed and where we just don't take ourselves and so we miss out on being in nature. We came back this weekend from a family camp in northern Minnesota and
I mean getting there is it's always it it honest to God, it's still anxiety provoking to leave the cities where it's urban and comfortable and there's so many people that look like me, to drive into a tiny little town where I know I'm the only one and where I worry about people's perceptions of me. But as we traveled north and the woods got thicker we started seeing more pine and it got quieter, the road signs got less, the mosquitoes got more. We ended up at this a lake. We set up in this beautiful cabin.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:12
2
What does “home” mean to the host and how does her upbringing shape her view of healthcare?
0:12–0:34
3
How does the narrator describe the contrast between growing up in Houston and practicing medicine in California?
0:34–0:51
4
Why do many healthcare providers feel compelled to leave their home states for training and work?
0:51–6:55
5
What insights does the camper share about finding peace in nature while coping with medical burnout?
6:55–20:32
6
How does the speaker describe the challenges of being a Black person in predominantly white outdoor spaces?
20:32–28:28