Unconscious bias, the gaslighting demon of an equity destroyer, plays with our minds much like Plato’s cave shadows—dancing sardonically behind our cognition, scorning the idea that we know what we are, how we think about ourselves and how we know the world.
Early on in my illness a friend sent me a meme.
“How do medical students get sick; can’t they just open a textbook and cure themselves?” it asked.
Although it wasn’t that simple, I learned a lot from the process of trying to discover what was wrong with me…I was getting a crash course on the art of medicine from the patient perspective, with my medical bill jokingly serving as the cost of tuition.
On May 29th, 2020, I attended a virtual seminar. I listened carefully, took detailed notes, and asked clarifying questions. In short, I learned the information that was being taught. That seminar was a revelation and something I had never experienced before.
