Forbes: ‘I Am Tired’:
What Black Doctors Need You To Know Right Now

Article by Jessica Gold, published in Forbes on June 12, 2020.

Full article is available here.

An excerpt is included below:

“Amanda Calhoun MD, MPH, Adult/Child Psychiatry Resident, Yale Department of Psychiatry

I think people miss the point when they express compassion about how I must be feeling as a black person, a black doctor, “right now”. There is no “right now”. Racism has affected the lives of black people, long before Covid-19, and long before the televised lynching of George Floyd. Race affects every aspect of our lives, whether we want it to or not, and doctors are no exception. Is my mental health impacted by the constant, near daily, acts of racism I experience? Of course. But it always has been.”