Keiko Cooley, MD
@KeiMD
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@ClaflinUniv1869 🔺. @UofSCSOMG . PGY-4 UroRes. #1stGen . #BlackGirlsDoSurgery . #MentorsMatter . Starring in my own personal Shonda Rhimes & Jordan Peele collab.
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“My goal is to return to communities that are congruent with those who helped mold and impact my childhood.”
Or something like that. 🌚
How do I professional say “the hood needs me” in my personal statement
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Resident physicians should be paid more.
Don’t say anything about“earning potential.” If I die tomorrow my “earning potential” is $0.00. We’re not all from affluent backgrounds.
Loud as I’m telling it, I’m still paying off my MCAT prep course 😐.
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Guys, I’m not over it.
I’m about to learn how to be a surgeon in one of the prettiest regions in the country at an incredibly well-rounded program.
I’m about to ask someone to buy me an Oregon scrub cap. Lol
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Life hack: don’t stretch a bad moment and convince yourself you’re having a bad day.
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Is it 5:07 in the morning?
Yes.
Do I graduate medical school today and fulfill my childhood dream?
Also Y E S!!
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I do my very best not to say politically rousing statements on here because I recognize how impactful it could be on my life and future. I will make a few points, however.
As a professional student, it is easy for my peers/colleagues to think of me as the kind of 1/x
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My chief asked me how I felt I did my first full -ish week.
I started discussing points where I could improve.
He said, “No, anyone can give themselves negative feedback. Tell me what you did well.”
🥺🥺🥺
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Remember, no matter how disturbing, disappointing, terrifying, concerning or unbelievable, events may be, Black history is American history.
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Someone has tricked you all into believing it’s ok to treat these medical students poorly.
Why’d a baby go back & forth about whether or not they mattered today?
You matter, ok? Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Teaching med studs, who want to learn, is my actual favorite.
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Tomorrow is Juneteenth and Father’s Day.
Those leather sandals are going to be seen far and wide.
Let’s remember:
We’re not in a post-racial society, sundown towns still exist, there’s a public school to prison pipeline, other intra-racial crimes don’t have a moniker,
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reason why *she* shouldn’t have been killed inappropriately excuses the use of police brutality that has ended the lives of so many others.
She deserved to live because she was loved. She deserved to live because she gave love. She deserved to live because she was born of 4/x
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The people who practice medicine will try and overcome you.
Do you hear me? They will try and alter you and force your assimilation into who THEY think you should be, talk the way THEY think you should speak.
Note: Professionalism is an esoteric, social construction of
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I just blocked someone who called me small and worthless based off my feelings about my pay a resident physician.
I want to make it ABUNDANTLY clear to every single body on Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter’s Internet that my worth and self-esteem is not correlated to my VOCATION
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@william_cbd
😂😂😂
Gotta know your audience!
Irl, I have the dictionary app and get a new word everyday. Also, in conversation when people say a word idk I write it down and look it up later. 👈🏾 game.
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I have an apartment is Portland, OR.
What?
Excuuuuuuuse me?
EYYYYYYE have an apartment in Portland, Oregon.
I’m going to buy a ONE-WAY ticket to fly to P o r t l a n d, OR.
Give me a moment.
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important to recognize and appreciate that when I am on the street, I am not Student Dr. Cooley. I am a Black woman from Gary, IN with locs who has been transplanted to SC.
Miss Taylor deserved her life because she was a human being. Using her profession as a 3/x
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her mother’s womb. She deserved to live because we as citizens deserve police that are psychologically intact, ACCURATE, well trained who treat people fairly and equally.
This is a complex and hurtful issue.
To Black women, you are love. You are beauty. You are valued. 5/x
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Academic medicine has an issue with confidence. In particular, it would seem with women; especially the Bl—
There seems to be this expectation that trainees will make themselves small.
I assure you, since I am already physically small, I will not make myself smaller walking
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Can you imagine exercising your first amendment right and someone comes along exercising their second amendment right and chooses the best solution to their discomfort to your protesting systemic oppression is to end your life?
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You are precious. Sister, you deserve life and all the fruit you can taste in it. I know you’re wrestling with your mortality and safety because I am too, but you matter baby girl. Your life matters.
Last night,
@almostdr_obrien
and I were together and I said to him, 6/x
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“I wonder how the school would mourn me if this were to happen to me.”
7/7.
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It’s match day being the first day of
#BHM
for the team and I for me.
#MatchHistoryMonth
#AUAMatch
#UroMelanin
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I feel like Juneteenth is a good day to say the following:
1. Black people aren’t a monolith. No single Black person can speak for all of us.
2. Black professionals are not there to teach you.
3. Black students and trainees deserve to learn without the burden of being placed on
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Black/AA person who would never find themselves in a compromising position with law enforcement. Additionally, there’s falsely ascribed increased worth on my life. Further, some people even go as far as to think we may share very similar viewpoints on current events.
It is 2/x
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The US govt isn’t THAT concerned about the physician shortage because if they were, there would be more creative solutions on how to make more physicians AND if they really cared about the wellness of their citizenry, they’d have a nationalized healthcare system & would increase
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It’s a one-step process to find out how to pronounce someone’s name.
Step 1: ask
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slavery was not that long ago, I knew my great-grandmother who was a sharecropper, I have a copy of the bill of sale for my paternal ancestors who were from Africa, don’t tell Black people to get over it and lastly, enslaved Black people never got their reparations.
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My aunt encouraged me to write a mission/vision statement for my life to use a filter for engagements, statements, involvement in projects, etc as a way to ensure everything I do aligns with what I want for myself and my legacy.
Why’s she so brilliant? 😭
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I was discussing my pay with nurses because somehow their pay came up and I said, “Everyone in here makes more than me.” I said I make “~$12/h” And an Ortho attending said, “I don’t think it’s that much.”
A friend from college said the managers at in and out make more.
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What’s for me won’t pass me by and what passes me by isn’t for me.
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“So match day is when I’ll find out if I got a job.”
“You mean to tell me you been in school for four years and might not get a job?”
“That’s exactly what I’m saying. Lean on Jesus. I’ll send the zoom link.”
First Gen docs - how do you explain match day to your family?
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My amazing mentor put some of the strongest language about who I am in my LoR that I’ve ever seen. I joked with my aunt that I was unsure if my mother spoke that way about me.
I felt any program that interviewed me after THAT letter knew.
Go, bravely, where you are celebrated.
I was able to reveal myself the second I left.
I worked for years to try to change medical universities.
It worked somewhat but if universities don’t want to change you burn out.
Go where the PD calls people brave for speaking up, not where you are called “unprofessional.”—
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And I’ll say this, as a provider, fleeing states is not the correct answer.
The populations you’re leaving: the impoverished, low health literate, Black, Hispanic, LatinX, queer, LGBTQ+ are the ones who need you to stay.
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I saw a tweet from a sister that said if I show up to work and do my job without bothering anyone, that’s professionalism.
This is my truth.
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the pay of primary care physicians, starting with the pediatricians. BECAUSE I WILL SAY THIS HERE: you will not catch me voluntarily coming at a child with snot dripping out their nose who’s crying.
I feel my cortisol going up right now. Lord.
I got a REGULAR cold from a
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Also any day, but especially Juneteenth, is a good day to stop grouping Black people in with “people of color” given the pervasiveness of anti-Blackness within minority groups (we’ll leave the anti-Black American sentiments with the African diaspora for another day)
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We have the worst maternal mortality of any developed nation and here these folks go 😭😭
I had someone tell l me childhood poverty doesn’t exist in the US. Whew, I know you’re not from here, because…What?
These are the same people that won’t budget for universal childcare
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I hope everyone matches at the program of their dreams and is supportive, kind and respectful of their co-residents. Medicine is delivered as a team. Dissonance and ill feelings within that team are harmful. My grandmother always said, "It's nice to be nice."
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Ppl talk about the future of medicine being bright but I know *residents* who feel this way.
So please tell me more about how medicine has changed when a president of a whole surgical society chose this as his hill to die on… let me go find some bootstraps to pick up
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@QaaliHussein1
I have that sound and a little girl who looked like me when I was her age burned into my memory.
I typically write poems to process those events, but haven’t been able and that was two years ago.
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the dominant population and what makes them comfortable.
Note: Professionalism and respect are not synonyms.
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The cognitive separation that people will permit when thinking of “good” or “intelligent” or “exceptional” Black people is harmful.
As I occupy more spaces that look less like where I grew up and less like my family, it is important to me to still be seen as
@kjdelay1
It was particularly difficult to be in the Drs. lounge as a med student and hear problematic commentary from attendings...as if I am not one of “those people” being discussed. It’s like all filters are off when Fox is on the tv.
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I grew up off 5th Ave in Gary, IN and now when my name is searched on the World Wide Web authored publications show up.
I couldn’t have dreamed of this.
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On a more positive note given it’s interview season, I want to volunteer that our faculty in
@OHSUurology
are outstanding.
As a more outspoken, self-advocating Black woman, I’ve always felt I had to prove how I was transgressed and the underlying motives. I haven’t felt that
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Weeks before match, I heard, “Oh you’ll definitely match into urology because you’re a woman and you’re Black.”
First of all, that’s not why I’ll match.
I don’t understand the volunteering of these takes. I promise you’re not edgy for saying it.
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Call is always a wild time for
@CaseySeidemanMD
and I. Terrible call synergy. Idk what the universe wants from us. Despite the sleep lost and touch of resident delirium, she was still an excellent teacher and I got on the console for the first time this week!!
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I think word choice matters.
I assure you, Mr. Floyd, was not “sacrificing” his life.
As we look at the definition of sacrifice, we see words like, “offer” and, “surrender.”
Through inhumanity, malice and ill intent his life was S T O L E N, not sacrificed.
@AlexNBCNews
@SpeakerPelosi
Speaker Pelosi: "Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice ... Because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous with justice."
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She must’ve said, “hold my purse” when she started school because..... the cords...
S H E E S H.
A Queen. 🎉🎊🥺❤️
Dr. Farrah-Amoy Fullerton, MD
First MD of my immigrant family
Proud Black woman apart of and fighting for the LGBTQIA, disabled/chronically ill, and hot girl communities
#MedGradWislist
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V*nmo: farrahxamoy
Z*lle: farrah0145
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People are actively trying to help me grow to seeing value in multifaceted work relationships, but the behaviors I observe are less than motivating.
Some of these people are regarded as ✨highly✨ professional.
If they’re the standard, I’m going to fall short. Cheers 🥂.
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@dr_uche_bee
Then all that coupled with many of us being first gens to acquire professional degrees and not knowing the nuances and how to navigate the very small world of medicine.....whew
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Welcome new followers. Wow I finally got to 1k.
Funny how a code-switched sentence did that 😂😂. I hope that young lady uses it in her PS.
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into a room.
I recently saw this clip of
@quintabrunson
talking to Oprah describing how she doesn’t have “Imposter Syndrome” because everything she has is well earned.
Baby, if YOU think I think I have swindled my way to where I am in life it’s a delusion. As my good sis
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and how it facilitates erasure of specific challenges faced by Black people.
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Listen, your dream is precious; protect it, nurture it, chase it, believe in it, and believe in yourself. You can do anything you want. Remember, delay is not denial. It doesn’t matter how fast you get there, just matters THAT you get there.
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Can we as
#MedStudentTwitter
discuss
#VirtualAways
/
#VirtualSubIs
?
Class of 2021, what’re your thoughts?
As an
#OrphanApplicant
, I was really looking forward to physical aways for the opportunity to engage with residents for the first time.
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I’d be remiss if, in my excitement, I didn’t shoutout my mentor
@RyanWerntzMD
.
He’s how I learned about OHSU.
I scrubbed with him the first time and at the end of the case thought, “I want to go where he went. Why’s he this good?”
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#DNRTulane
is such an interesting assertion to make.
I’m curious, where do you think Black physicians/trainees/students should go where they won’t experience A N Y racism? Aren’t the people of New Orleans deserving physicians who look like them and have a higher likelihood of
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HAPPY KWANZAA!!
Kwanzaa is an African-American celebration of life from 12/26 to 1/1. Dr. Karenga introduced the festival in 1966 to the US. It was created for Afro-Americans.
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I’m really excited about this and have already disseminated this information to a number of my HBCU connects and my medical college.
I, truly, stumbled into urology, but I’m so happy to be here 😭😭😭.
Don't miss "The Impact of Diversity in Urology: how Black Urologists Shape Patient Outcomes" webinar on February 23 at 2pm ET.
Register Here➡️
Featuring: Dr.
@LfromtheD
, Dr. Arthur Burnett,
@Dr_Brian_McNeil
, Dr.
@KeiMD
, & Godfrey Wilson, MPA
#UroSoMe
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Last night I watched the AUA’s Diversity In Urology Webinar. The topic of cognitive diversity came up.
Let’s discuss.
As the field of medicine continues to try and diversify its workforce to achieve concordance with the US population, I think it’s important to recognize the
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@whereinmyworld
Everything goes on 2x.
Me: *Opens link* 3m30s video
Me: no it isn’t *changes settings*
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I’d love to find her; for her to see that T O D A Y I am Dr. Keiko A. L. Cooley, a blossoming urologic surgeon.
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It’s still Juneteenth on the west coast.
Professionalism is:
Black folks
…with locs.
…with cornrows.
…with braids.
…with faux locs.
…with dyed hair.
…with hightop fades.
…with sew-ins.
Phenotypic Blackness is not unprofessional.
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I. Got. My. Schedule.
Praise the Uro gawds, starting on urology 😭❤️🙌🏾
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