5/3 YES: Be an Upstander
May 03, 2024ID11628
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- 00:00And I think we're going to be recorded, yes.
- 00:03So good afternoon, everyone.
- 00:05I'm Andreas Martin.
- 00:07I'm a professor of child psychiatry
- 00:10at the Child Study Center.
- 00:12And I'm here with my hat as a
- 00:16proud member of the newly remained
- 00:19Center for Medical Education,
- 00:21which is thriving and growing.
- 00:23And it's an exciting set of ventures
- 00:25and one of the ventures that we started
- 00:27a year ago is this series called,
- 00:30yes, the Yale Medical Educator Series.
- 00:34My colleague,
- 00:35my partner in crime in this has been
- 00:37Dana Dunn from Internal Medicine.
- 00:39I'm sure many of you know and what you
- 00:42may not know is that today is actually
- 00:46our very last yes presentation from the year.
- 00:50And I think it's been incredibly rich,
- 00:54very helpful practical year.
- 00:56We've strived to be very practical in what
- 01:01tools we give all of you learner educators,
- 01:04clinical educators.
- 01:05So thank you for being here and it's a
- 01:10wonderful place to finish the series with
- 01:14this dynamic duo we have here today.
- 01:17The first of the duo is someone who
- 01:19I've known for a couple of years
- 01:21and I have tremendous respect for.
- 01:23And that's Shaili Gupta from
- 01:26Internal Medicine.
- 01:27She is mostly at the VA and she is the
- 01:33vice chair and director of Diversity,
- 01:36Equity and Inclusion at the VA
- 01:38and she has the many roles within
- 01:41the Department of Medicine.
- 01:43But she really has a passion
- 01:45and an interest in equity,
- 01:47equitable care in dealing with many of
- 01:50the issues we're going to be seeing today.
- 01:52So.
- 01:53So that's shyly.
- 01:54And her senior partner in crime
- 01:56is someone who have just had the
- 01:59pleasure of meeting very recently.
- 02:01But I already like him a lot,
- 02:03and I've already even learned how to
- 02:05properly pronounce his last name.
- 02:06So he said me right.
- 02:08So Doctor Ben Mbah is relatively new to Yale.
- 02:15He's a professor of medicine.
- 02:17He's the vice chair for DEI in
- 02:21internal medicine and in the grad
- 02:24graduate medical education, the GMBC.
- 02:28So
- 02:31Doctor Mbach came to us from Chicago
- 02:35and he was a a great steal as I'm
- 02:38looking at his CV because he was
- 02:41incredibly involved in a range of things.
- 02:44But those that caught my eye from his
- 02:47very long CV involve clinical teaching,
- 02:50which is a passion that again Chile and Ben
- 02:55share in community participation and action.
- 02:58And the last thing that
- 03:00I'll mention about his CV,
- 03:01something that really caught my
- 03:03eye is that now there is back
- 03:05in Rush in Chicago a prize,
- 03:08a coveted award for clinical teaching
- 03:12called the Ben Amba Teaching Award.
- 03:15So just to give you a sense of the
- 03:17likes of folks we are here with.
- 03:19So I'm going to pass the baton on to them and
- 03:26take it away, teach us how to upstand
- 03:29and be upstanders. Shaylee, Ben.
- 03:32Thank you, Andres.
- 03:33All right, so let's begin.
- 03:36This is the the CME code to text
- 03:41and it's also in the chat if you
- 03:42wanted to text it for attendance.
- 03:44So the objectives of the talk
- 03:47are 4 objectives here that we
- 03:49are going to try and accomplish.
- 03:51One is to recognize the prevalence
- 03:53of identity based offences that
- 03:56our faculty and trainees face.
- 03:58Next we will identify the
- 04:00barriers to response by faculty.
- 04:02Recognize your role and find
- 04:05your professional voice.
- 04:06And then I'll also review some
- 04:09reporting pathways and resources that
- 04:11can be used to continue helping all
- 04:13of us in being better up standards.
- 04:15And why is this important?
- 04:17It's because it does matter a
- 04:20lot to the learning climate,
- 04:22no matter what the quality of
- 04:23education we provide and the
- 04:25kind of research opportunities
- 04:26we provide to our trainees.
- 04:28If we cannot provide them a good
- 04:30healthy work environment and learning
- 04:32climate and upstand for them,
- 04:34treat them respectfully but also
- 04:36make sure that they are treated
- 04:38respectfully by others too.
- 04:39It it those parts are essential in
- 04:41order to create that kind of climate.
- 04:44The agenda is going to again cover
- 04:47all those four objectives with the
- 04:49status to review the identity based defenses,
- 04:52go over barriers,
- 04:54strategies and then some practice
- 04:57scenarios and I'm going to hopefully
- 05:00have voluntary participants in
- 05:02the practice scenarios so you
- 05:04can use your professional voice
- 05:06right away in addressing some of
- 05:07the offences that will play out.
- 05:11So I'll quickly go over the status first.
- 05:14I initially designed the
- 05:16diverse survey back in 2020.
- 05:19It was a funny time to have designed that.
- 05:22Right around the time is when
- 05:23we got hit by COVID then it.
- 05:26It was a survey that was initially
- 05:29designed to create as a pilot tool
- 05:31and I introduced that at one single
- 05:35site at Yale to measure the extent and
- 05:38areas of identity based offences and it
- 05:41provided a whole bunch of very rich data.
- 05:43We were then able to tweak the
- 05:45survey better and then redistributed
- 05:47the more solidified survey in 2022
- 05:50to all different sites which was
- 05:52distributed to all departments,
- 05:54all subsections,
- 05:57all the trainees and faculty.
- 05:59It had a lot of open and closed
- 06:01ended questions and we collected
- 06:03quantitative and qualitative
- 06:05data which is extremely rich.
- 06:08So I'm going to share just a few small
- 06:11highlights because these are helpful
- 06:13in order to inform our next few slides.
- 06:17These are just three or four
- 06:18graphs that I'll share with you.
- 06:20So who sustained most of the
- 06:22damage and most of the offences?
- 06:24You can see that the green bars
- 06:26represent non white identifying
- 06:28women and the light green bars here
- 06:32represent white identifying women.
- 06:35And you can see that women took the
- 06:38majority when it came to who was being
- 06:40subjected to these kind of insults.
- 06:42And you can see the number of
- 06:44insults are quite different variety
- 06:46of them from hurtful and offensive
- 06:48language to loss of opportunity,
- 06:50unwelcome physical contact even the.
- 06:54The next thing to make sure that we
- 06:57understand is who is the main category
- 06:59of people who are subjecting and this
- 07:02this actually came as a surprise to me.
- 07:05In general,
- 07:06when you talk about these with
- 07:08an anyone else,
- 07:09people usually believe that it is
- 07:11the patients and patient families
- 07:12who are the biggest offenders.
- 07:14But the data spoke otherwise.
- 07:16The yellow bars,
- 07:18these giant bars are the total
- 07:20offences committed towards faculty.
- 07:22So this is the data from faculty alone.
- 07:25304 faculty participated in this and
- 07:29the grey bar represents the offender
- 07:31which turns out to be faculty offender.
- 07:33So most of the faculty reported being
- 07:36subjected to these offences by another
- 07:39faculty member and the P values were
- 07:42quite significant across the board
- 07:44for all different kinds of offences.
- 07:47If you look at the training data,
- 07:49this is when trainees reported it,
- 07:51322 trainees who reported offences
- 07:54occurring towards them and we
- 07:56looked at who the offender was.
- 07:57Here.
- 07:57I thought this time it would be patients.
- 08:00The yellow bar again is the total offences,
- 08:02but again faculty took the
- 08:04lead in most of the offences.
- 08:07Hurtful language and verbal
- 08:09threat was more made by patients,
- 08:12but hurtful language faculty was
- 08:14competing pretty well in that too.
- 08:18This is really,
- 08:19really important data to to start
- 08:22addressing because it's so important.
- 08:24It's low,
- 08:25low hanging fruit.
- 08:26These are our faculty members.
- 08:27We should be able to do a better job in
- 08:30informing them better,
- 08:31training them better and making sure
- 08:33that they understand how they are,
- 08:36how they're being perceived or how
- 08:39they are causing hurt and insult.
- 08:42We also looked at how the experienced
- 08:46offences compared with the witness
- 08:48offences and one thing that came out
- 08:50was that it kind of validated the
- 08:52people who were reporting experiences
- 08:54because similar percentages were
- 08:56being reported as witnessed.
- 08:58So this is not just some something
- 09:01people are just reporting and
- 09:02nothing is actually happening there.
- 09:04There were similar reports
- 09:05of it being witnessed.
- 09:07It is important for two things here to
- 09:09be paid attention to the two areas where
- 09:13the witnessing response or witnessing
- 09:15reports was lower in percentage
- 09:17compared to what was experienced.
- 09:19Are this the Gray area?
- 09:22Sorry, I have gone to the next one.
- 09:27Do I go to the previous slide?
- 09:31Sorry,
- 09:36oh gosh, I'll just keep going.
- 09:38But I wanted to show you the data
- 09:41showing how the witness offences
- 09:43were less in the area of suggestions
- 09:46not heard because and that suggested
- 09:49that suggestions are not being heard
- 09:51by the person who who is offending
- 09:54but at the same time also others who
- 09:56are unable to hear the suggestions.
- 09:58So it creates this opportunity for us
- 10:00to realize how we should be listening
- 10:03more that information and that data,
- 10:05that survey data led me to create the
- 10:09the diverse trainings that I was able
- 10:13to create the diverse trainings that
- 10:16raises up standards and trains you
- 10:18how to become better up standards.
- 10:21Part of that is this module that
- 10:23we're going through now,
- 10:24but it also includes reenactment
- 10:27scenarios where we invite faculty
- 10:29to to play a role in simulated
- 10:32participants enacting out the data
- 10:34that we can collected from the survey.
- 10:37There were scripts written for that and
- 10:39the SP plays out the part and you are
- 10:42expected to speak up in that moment.
- 10:44What we realised from that data was
- 10:47that people felt that they were able
- 10:50to actually gain a voice when they
- 10:52were expected to speak in the moment.
- 10:55Using your voice makes it more comfortable
- 10:57for you to reuse your voice in the future,
- 11:00and that's why it's important to
- 11:02hopefully keep those trainings running.
- 11:04So I'll pause here and ask if people
- 11:07want to share some of their experiences,
- 11:11things that you have seen,
- 11:13things that you find bothersome or skills
- 11:16that you would like to learn most,
- 11:18or your barriers why you are unable to
- 11:21respond in in the moment when things occur.
- 11:24Would anyone like to share?
- 11:28You could share in the chat as well
- 11:30if you if that's easier for you.
- 11:42Perhaps we can narrow down to what
- 11:44would barriers, What do people perceive
- 11:46as barriers to being upstanders?
- 11:57I think people are still digging into lunch.
- 12:01That's OK. So we can actually discuss
- 12:03the barriers and hopefully people will
- 12:05be able to relate to some of those.
- 12:07Ben, do you want to take over this one?
- 12:09Yes, if you could just so thank
- 12:12you everyone, for attending this.
- 12:14So I'm just going to talk
- 12:16briefly about the themes,
- 12:18the the barriers that we we all encounter
- 12:21that stop us from being upstanders,
- 12:24that stop us from moving from
- 12:27being bystanders to upstanders.
- 12:29So I would consider an upstander to be
- 12:33a bystander who decides to intervene
- 12:37in a Safeway when they witness an
- 12:41insult or an offence or an assault.
- 12:45So again, an upstander is a bystander who
- 12:48decides to transform from a bystander
- 12:51to an upstander by intervening safely.
- 12:54Now what are possible barriers?
- 12:55So next, next please.
- 12:58Shari.
- 12:59So using the acronym QUAD,
- 13:02one of the first barriers is,
- 13:04is just basically questioning the
- 13:07need to respond and if you next click
- 13:11please and this is one of the issues
- 13:14here is perhaps not noticing the offence now.
- 13:17Egregious offences, be them racial,
- 13:20be them domestic violence,
- 13:23be them sexual assault.
- 13:25They are clearly identifiable
- 13:27and very easy to see.
- 13:29But but unfortunately,
- 13:30egregious offences are just
- 13:32the tip of the iceberg.
- 13:35Below the water level,
- 13:36the bulk of the iceberg is understanding
- 13:39the whole continuum or the whole
- 13:42spectrum of possible offences.
- 13:44So on one end is sexual assault.
- 13:46But it goes, there's also,
- 13:48there's sexism, there's microaggressions,
- 13:50there's stalking, there's cyber harassment,
- 13:54there's verbal harassment,
- 13:56there's there's extreme,
- 13:57there's racial violence at one extreme.
- 13:59That's the tip of the iceberg.
- 14:01But then there's the racial comments,
- 14:03microaggressions, denying opportunities.
- 14:05So all of those that that's
- 14:07the whole spectrum.
- 14:09And So what I would encourage all
- 14:12of us to do is that if we decide
- 14:15that we we have our personal value
- 14:18is to work in an environment that
- 14:20is safe and inclusive for all.
- 14:23Then it I think it's in to some
- 14:25extent incumbent on all of us to
- 14:28try to understand at least to get
- 14:30to know what the whole continuum
- 14:31or spectrum of offences could be
- 14:33in terms of be I be there racial,
- 14:35gender sexual orientation ageism.
- 14:37And just to understand that so that
- 14:39we are on the lookout and then we are
- 14:42active participants in ensuring we
- 14:44have an inclusive culture another barrier.
- 14:46Next click please Charlie.
- 14:48Oh oh an example of this So this is
- 14:50where one may ask what does why does
- 14:52this need intervention But when you
- 14:54understand the whole spectrum then
- 14:56you can see that every little cut
- 15:00to the offended it's almost like
- 15:02death by 1000 cuts And I don't think
- 15:05we should it should not be left up
- 15:07to the offended to respond which
- 15:09it's all of us should be able to
- 15:12respond and support the offended.
- 15:14Next click, please, Charlie.
- 15:18So unrelatability, and this has to we all
- 15:22as individuals have our own worldview,
- 15:26and that is our own bias.
- 15:29As we look at things through our bias lenses,
- 15:31through our lived experience or lack
- 15:34thereof of lived experience through and
- 15:36our cultures and sometimes our religion,
- 15:39our our social environments,
- 15:41all of those contribute to
- 15:44what our worldview is.
- 15:45And so an an example would be for instance,
- 15:48if I if I grew up in so I grew up
- 15:53in Nigeria and if I grew up in.
- 15:55If you're if you're in an environment where
- 15:57you think and I'm not saying that Nigeria,
- 15:59this is rampant in Nigeria.
- 16:01But if you grew up in an environment
- 16:03where you think and perceive that
- 16:05sexual harassment, for an example,
- 16:07is only from a man to a woman,
- 16:09you may not actually perceive
- 16:12same gender sexual harassment,
- 16:14same sex gender harassment.
- 16:16You may not perceive that as a
- 16:18problem because you're looking
- 16:19at it through your own lens.
- 16:21So again,
- 16:22incumbent of all of us to to try to be
- 16:24this should lead to self-awareness of
- 16:26what our own lens is and so that we can
- 16:29in effect take double takes and decide,
- 16:31oh, looking at this,
- 16:32I'm looking at this through my own lens,
- 16:34but is this?
- 16:35Should I take a second look here?
- 16:37Should I consider intervening?
- 16:39So next click.
- 16:40This is the question of if we don't
- 16:43expand our scope in that way,
- 16:44then we may be feeling that,
- 16:45oh,
- 16:45this is not hurtful because we're
- 16:47looking at it through our own lens.
- 16:49Next click please.
- 16:52Then this is the avoidance.
- 16:53This is basically a
- 16:55combination of the hassle bias.
- 16:57I don't want to get in trouble.
- 16:58I don't want to see anything because
- 17:01there may be some hierarchical dynamics.
- 17:03I'm I'm uncertain who I should talk to.
- 17:07I just don't want to get involved.
- 17:08I just want to do my own thing and move on.
- 17:10And this is next click.
- 17:12This is the issue of you know,
- 17:14why is it my job to address this?
- 17:16Why? Why isn't yield?
- 17:17Why shouldn't be some office at Yale?
- 17:19Why me? And then the last theme for
- 17:22barriers would be next Click, please.
- 17:25Divided loyalties.
- 17:26Many times as bystanders,
- 17:28not as bystanders, we are caught
- 17:31between the offender and the offended.
- 17:34Literally.
- 17:34Sometimes we're friends with both,
- 17:35sometimes we are answered
- 17:38to one or the other.
- 17:39And so this is the problem of
- 17:41trying to please both parties.
- 17:43But when it comes to microaggressions
- 17:45and repeated assaults,
- 17:48really there's only one victim
- 17:52in the sense that the offended is
- 17:54the person that is the priority,
- 17:56him or her the priority when it
- 17:58comes to being an upstander.
- 17:59Now we we we could re educate the offended,
- 18:03hopefully. And that's the case.
- 18:04And then eventually everyone,
- 18:06eventually everything is not
- 18:08intentional and therefore we can try
- 18:10to have a more inclusive environment.
- 18:12Yeah. So. So that's pretty much it.
- 18:14Just a brief 1 slide on the barriers.
- 18:17And then next Shirley will take us on
- 18:19to strategies to use in real time.
- 18:22Back to you.
- 18:23Thank
- 18:24you, Ben. So now that we've
- 18:26reviewed the barriers, let's start
- 18:29looking at how do we strategize
- 18:31to use our professional voice and
- 18:33actually break our own barriers.
- 18:38Why is professional voice
- 18:39important in these situations?
- 18:40Because it can be used to call out hurtful
- 18:43and insulting behaviour and language.
- 18:45At the same time,
- 18:46you also use that same voice
- 18:48to support the offended Often,
- 18:50as you'll see in the strategies,
- 18:52if you use it well,
- 18:53you will be able to do both the things
- 18:56together in the same moment at the same time.
- 18:59It's important to know
- 19:00your reporting pathways,
- 19:03so the strategies of using
- 19:05your professional voice.
- 19:07I've split them into four different
- 19:09categories, direct intervention,
- 19:10which is usually done in the moment
- 19:13or it can be done after there
- 19:16is defending and supporting the
- 19:18person who's feeling offended.
- 19:20There are times when you may not
- 19:23have a direct system or a direct
- 19:25approach to how to address it.
- 19:28Those are the times when you can
- 19:30use delegation and reporting
- 19:31either to the leadership or to
- 19:33the DEI leaders and we'll review
- 19:36some of the reporting pathways.
- 19:38And the last one is distracting
- 19:40and de escalating.
- 19:41This is one that I would hope that
- 19:44we don't need to use it very often,
- 19:47but there are times when this is
- 19:49the only strategy that you can use.
- 19:50One good example of that is a
- 19:53patient who does not have a mental
- 19:55status that would retain anything
- 19:57that you're trying to coach them.
- 19:59And in those moments at least,
- 20:01the least we can do is to de escalate
- 20:03and to stop the offense from occurring.
- 20:06So that is the time when we can
- 20:08use distraction as as a strategy.
- 20:10The idea is if you see something,
- 20:14please say or do something.
- 20:16So let's review some of the strategies.
- 20:19Direct intervention is by far the
- 20:22most effective tool among all the
- 20:25strategies to stop the behaviour
- 20:27in the moment.
- 20:28It is the best used one that can stop it,
- 20:31prevent it and correct the
- 20:33behaviour for future two.
- 20:34And you can use several different
- 20:37ways of direct intervention,
- 20:40the the least and the smallest.
- 20:41And the easiest way to do this is just to
- 20:44have a quick check on the comment or gesture,
- 20:47or to clarify.
- 20:48It can be something we used
- 20:51to teach about saying Ouch.
- 20:53I feel that Ouch is too light a word,
- 20:57so sometimes it's good to use the word.
- 21:00I'm sorry, what did you just say?
- 21:02It's as simple as that,
- 21:03and people would usually not even repeat it.
- 21:07Setting expectations is another
- 21:09direct intervention tool and
- 21:11it is done pretty effectively.
- 21:13You'll see some of these examples.
- 21:15So let's read a couple of the
- 21:17the examples of clarifying and
- 21:19checking the comment or gesture.
- 21:21One is as simple as what was that.
- 21:25Another one, if if a patient is referring
- 21:28to your trainee as sweetie honey,
- 21:31it can be an immediate correction
- 21:33in the moment, done gently,
- 21:35very professionally and then moving on
- 21:37to the history and physical anyway.
- 21:40But it makes sure that that patient does
- 21:43not step any further down in that direction.
- 21:47So a person,
- 21:48a patient who's calling your
- 21:49trainee sweetie or honey,
- 21:50you could easily say we don't refer to our
- 21:52physicians or patients in those terms here.
- 21:54This is Doctor Stein and I am Doctor Singh.
- 21:58Let's hear one of my other colleagues.
- 22:00This kind of language is not
- 22:02acceptable in our healthcare system.
- 22:03We are here to provide care for
- 22:05you and this must be done in
- 22:06a mutually respectful setting.
- 22:10That setting, tone and setting of the
- 22:13expectations is one of the words that
- 22:15these sentences and these statements
- 22:17about this kind of language is not
- 22:19acceptable in our healthcare system.
- 22:21I want all of you to be able to say
- 22:23that even if you say it in the privacy
- 22:25of your car, if you say it once,
- 22:27you'll be able to say it in the real moment.
- 22:29It is important to say it once verbally.
- 22:34The 3rd way of direct intervention is
- 22:37naming the offence, and usually all
- 22:38three of these are done at the same time.
- 22:41But naming the offence is important,
- 22:43especially for situations, for example,
- 22:46when people are not even aware,
- 22:48or at least not that you can see that
- 22:51they're aware of what they say is offensive.
- 22:53And when you call out the offense,
- 22:55many people would immediately realize
- 22:57that what they said was perceived
- 22:59this way and would check it.
- 23:01Let's hear someone else say this.
- 23:03Hey Morgan, those comments on accent
- 23:05and country of origin that you made
- 23:07to Tianmin made me feel uncomfortable
- 23:09and likely made him feel unwelcome.
- 23:11I'm sure you did not mean to offend him,
- 23:13but it may be a good idea to reach
- 23:16out to him and clarify.
- 23:17Notice that you can do this in that
- 23:20moment where you can immediately
- 23:22correct when the behaviour is occurring,
- 23:24or you can do it after.
- 23:25That's also a direct intervention.
- 23:27You're just talking to your colleague
- 23:29in privacy so that they don't feel
- 23:31too too disrespected because you
- 23:33checked them right away.
- 23:34If you feel more comfortable
- 23:36checking them later,
- 23:37or at least sharing that what they said
- 23:39was something that came across that way,
- 23:41it can be easily done and then it's up
- 23:44to them to go ahead and correct it.
- 23:47The second D is defendant support.
- 23:50Defending and supporting is something
- 23:52that's best used for when you're noticing
- 23:55someone else's suggestions not being heard,
- 23:58someone else not being included in a
- 24:01conversation or in an opportunity,
- 24:03a position or a role not being
- 24:06offered to someone.
- 24:07A patient questioning A
- 24:09trainee's credentials,
- 24:11a nurse double checking a
- 24:13trainees instructions.
- 24:14All these are some specific situations where
- 24:19you can use the defendant support strategy.
- 24:22So let's use some of these.
- 24:25The idea is to highlight the
- 24:27contributions of someone, for example.
- 24:29Oh,
- 24:29I'm glad you're bringing up the same
- 24:31suggestion that Liz did a few minutes ago.
- 24:34I love this idea too.
- 24:36Liz,
- 24:36can you share a bit more about how
- 24:38this could be implemented?
- 24:40Notice that this person uses this
- 24:44strategy so beautifully without
- 24:46challenging or offending the offender.
- 24:48So let's say you're in a section meeting.
- 24:50A section chief is hearing everyone and
- 24:53Liz goes ahead and suggests something.
- 24:56That was a brilliant new idea.
- 24:583 minutes later,
- 24:59the section chief is presenting
- 25:01that as their own idea.
- 25:02You don't want to call, call it out perhaps,
- 25:05but you can easily say, oh,
- 25:06I'm glad you said that I was going
- 25:08to say the same thing.
- 25:09I love Liz's idea.
- 25:11And then invite Liz into the conversation.
- 25:14The other thing that defending and
- 25:17supporting does is actually helps
- 25:19you recognize the value of someone
- 25:21and highlighted to the others too.
- 25:23Susie has been one of our most
- 25:25productive colleagues.
- 25:26I'm so impressed by her thoughtful
- 25:29ideas or I'm so curious to hear
- 25:32Jamal's thoughts on this.
- 25:33Jamal, how should we approach this?
- 25:36These are both ways to incorporate
- 25:39and invite people.
- 25:40Draw them back into a conversation
- 25:42that they have been marginalized from,
- 25:44people whose ideas are not being heard,
- 25:46or they just don't feel comfortable
- 25:47enough to speak anymore because
- 25:49they have been sidelined so often.
- 25:51This is one way of you inviting
- 25:52them back into the conversation.
- 25:57The main idea for all these strategies
- 25:59for defendant support is to defend,
- 26:02lift and support all three at the same time.
- 26:06We can do that in in another situation
- 26:10where the slide just keeps jumping.
- 26:12But let's say a nurse is not
- 26:16listening to a training suggestions.
- 26:18You can use your voice and say
- 26:22this physician is one of the most
- 26:24excellent ones that we've had.
- 26:25She's acting in phenomenal caregiver
- 26:27and I learn from her every day.
- 26:30Is there something specific that
- 26:32wasn't clear in her instructions?
- 26:34It's something that helps you
- 26:35highlight the point that that that
- 26:38person has the right credentials
- 26:39that you respect them and you expect
- 26:42the nurse to to respect them.
- 26:43So we'll go the over the third D this is
- 26:46the delegation on reporting pathways.
- 26:48It has taken a massive amount of work
- 26:50in the last three years to create and
- 26:53consolidate these reporting pathways.
- 26:54There were some structures already
- 26:57in place about five years ago,
- 27:00but very few,
- 27:01even those were great to have
- 27:04consolidated and really clarified so
- 27:05that the pathways are clear to everyone.
- 27:08If you're in doubt and you don't
- 27:10know when you see an offence about
- 27:12who the reporting person would be,
- 27:14who should you reach out to?
- 27:15You can always seek direction
- 27:17from your leadership or from the
- 27:20Dai leader of that section.
- 27:21And there's a variety of these structures
- 27:23that deal with different things and
- 27:25we'll go over the reporting pathways,
- 27:27but they include from everyone
- 27:29from department section,
- 27:30leadership all the way to
- 27:32Title 9 office or OAPD.
- 27:38So let's review some of the reporting
- 27:39back base and there will be a
- 27:42handout that will contain all these.
- 27:43So you don't have to
- 27:45memorize these right now.
- 27:46I've put them in the handout.
- 27:48Linda, if you would be able to put the
- 27:50handout in the chat that would be great.
- 27:52So in cases of abusive behaviour or language,
- 27:54if you have noticed someone use
- 27:57abusive behaviour and language
- 27:59who is a faculty member,
- 28:01you may have decided to check
- 28:02them or talk to them in private.
- 28:04But if you want to then seek further
- 28:07advice and you want to perhaps pick it up,
- 28:09the best way to do it is to take
- 28:13it to the department leadership.
- 28:14If it is a patient who's using
- 28:16abusive behaviour and language,
- 28:17it should be reported to the Workplace
- 28:20Violence Committee which is called
- 28:21the Disruptive Behaviour Committee,
- 28:22DBC at the VA and work with
- 28:26Violence Committee at York St.
- 28:28Harassment Prevention Committee is
- 28:30another committee that gets involved.
- 28:32SAFER is the new Rs Solutions and
- 28:36it's beautifully designed now.
- 28:37If you ever use that you'll see
- 28:39it has very great,
- 28:40very good structure where it self
- 28:42guides you as you use it so that
- 28:45you can report all different kinds
- 28:47of offences that are listed here.
- 28:49JPSR is the VA form format of
- 28:52the safer and then of course
- 28:55your department leadership.
- 28:57In cases of unprofessional conduct
- 28:59or workplace bullying by a faculty,
- 29:01it's best to talk to your leadership
- 29:03first the section chief to start
- 29:05with or ADEI leader and then they
- 29:08can then decide if that needs to be
- 29:11upgraded and taken up to the OAPD
- 29:14or to HR if there is verbal threat
- 29:17or violence or assault occurring.
- 29:19The best of course this you know
- 29:21already would be hospital security
- 29:22and police to be called.
- 29:24Workplace violence.
- 29:25Committee actively gets involved
- 29:27in these things and same does the
- 29:30Disruptive Behaviour Committee.
- 29:32I want to make sure to highlight the
- 29:34reporting pathways for sexual harassment,
- 29:36which are slightly different when
- 29:38the harasser is patient versus when
- 29:41it's an employee or a faculty member.
- 29:43When the sexual harasser is a patient,
- 29:46it goes it's best to report it in
- 29:49immediately through SAFER because
- 29:50it actually documents it.
- 29:52That part is more critical than
- 29:55I can say it is.
- 29:57It.
- 29:58It's so important to document it right away,
- 30:01and also because it creates that report
- 30:04in the freshest way where memories
- 30:06are fresh and you can put it in there.
- 30:09DBC and HPC are the same body
- 30:11with the same kind of system,
- 30:13reporting pathways that are
- 30:14created at the VA.
- 30:16You can easily use them from the website
- 30:20for a patient who is sexual harasser.
- 30:23Nurse leadership always considers it
- 30:25important for them to be informed
- 30:28and understand why this is important.
- 30:31Most of the caregiving for any
- 30:34hospitalized patient is actually
- 30:35provided by nurses.
- 30:36Out of the 24 hours,
- 30:37I think physicians are providing
- 30:39that care at most for
- 30:40an hour. The rest of the 23 hours,
- 30:42it's nurses.
- 30:43So if there is a sexual harassment
- 30:45that's occurring from a patient,
- 30:47it is very important for nurses to
- 30:49know so that they can then create flags,
- 30:52make their own nurses aware and
- 30:55train train better while they're also
- 30:58addressing talking to the patient
- 31:00and getting the workplace violence
- 31:02committee to address the patient.
- 31:04Program and form leadership are often
- 31:06good to inform for trainees who are
- 31:09being sexually harassed by patients.
- 31:11And then SHARE and CT Alliance.
- 31:13I want to make sure that you
- 31:15understand what those are.
- 31:16These are the supporting structures.
- 31:19They're not the report report bodies,
- 31:21they are support structures.
- 31:23SHARE is the University,
- 31:25Yale affiliated through the Title 9 office.
- 31:30It actually provides more support
- 31:32to students because they are
- 31:35their primary responsibility,
- 31:36but they are happy to hear and
- 31:38provide support to residents
- 31:40and fellows if we call them.
- 31:42CT Alliance is a non profit organization
- 31:45that is active in Connecticut
- 31:47and we were able to establish a
- 31:50relationship with them two years
- 31:52ago because SHARE was overburdened
- 31:54with cases that they were having
- 31:56to hear about from all over the the
- 31:59York Street site and other sites.
- 32:02When their immediate responsibility
- 32:04for staff based on staffing
- 32:06was only towards students.
- 32:07The CT Alliance is actually one of the
- 32:10most beautiful resources that I've had
- 32:12and if you ever need information on them,
- 32:14you can reach out to me.
- 32:17Sexual harassment by employee.
- 32:19It could be a non physician employee
- 32:22or it could be a physician employee.
- 32:24The pathway is to you can pursue
- 32:28safer or first seek counsel from OAPD.
- 32:31How to report further or what?
- 32:33If you want to create and use
- 32:36the online reporting system,
- 32:38it's available right on the OAPD website.
- 32:42HR usually gets in involved
- 32:43and so does the Equal Employee
- 32:45Opportunity Office at the VA.
- 32:47They would get involved.
- 32:49If it is specially if it's a non
- 32:51physician staff who is doing that,
- 32:53they would get involved.
- 32:55And most of this is done
- 32:57as an investigation first.
- 32:59It's not just if someone said it,
- 33:01this is you know a fireable offence.
- 33:04It is done in a very cognizant from
- 33:07and formed way where both the offended
- 33:09and the offender are equally supported
- 33:12and an investigation is completed.
- 33:15The support pathway for this is
- 33:17again share and CT alliance,
- 33:19lots of opportunity.
- 33:19I hope that we will all be able to
- 33:22invite people into discussions ourselves.
- 33:24But again department, section,
- 33:26leadership are great resources.
- 33:30So word about sexual harassment before we
- 33:33move on to the 4th T Yale faculty and VA
- 33:36employees are expected to report sexual
- 33:39harassment when they're aware of it.
- 33:42So if a Co worker or a trainee
- 33:44report sexual harassment to you,
- 33:46in addition to thinking about
- 33:48using the reporting pathways,
- 33:50the first important thing is to listen
- 33:53and hopefully not ask too many questions.
- 33:56This is important because sexual
- 34:00harassment related experiences
- 34:03are best repeated at most ones.
- 34:06So if that person is going to have to
- 34:09report it to an HR investigator or a
- 34:12police investigator or OAPD or whoever
- 34:14else is going to actually hear it.
- 34:17Unless we really need to know
- 34:20some of the details in order to
- 34:22decide where this finally goes,
- 34:24it is not necessary for us to
- 34:26really hear all the details.
- 34:27It should be best heard by people who can
- 34:30decide how to proceed to the next step.
- 34:33ADEI leader in your section a program
- 34:36leadership person who is DEI expert
- 34:38in this or sexual harassment case
- 34:41expert would be better to to be
- 34:43that person and give them autonomy.
- 34:46Many trainees who have sustained
- 34:48this kind of harassment don't want
- 34:51to report it themselves, but many do.
- 34:53It would be important to know do they
- 34:55want to be the people reporting it and
- 34:56you can share the reporting structure
- 34:58with them and they can then report it.
- 35:01Or do they want it to be reported
- 35:04anonymously by you where you would have
- 35:06to do that without using their name
- 35:10it. It's also important at the same
- 35:11time to check in and make sure that
- 35:13their Wellness is taken care of,
- 35:15that they have someone providing Wellness
- 35:17support and to give them the contact
- 35:20information for share or for CT Alliance.
- 35:22It's one of the most egregious and the
- 35:26most sustaining offence because most
- 35:29people who sustain it would revisit it
- 35:32and get triggered and re traumatized
- 35:35several times two years after that.
- 35:39The 4th D is distract and disrupt
- 35:42and this is, like I said,
- 35:43it's used for patients who
- 35:45have cognitive deficits,
- 35:46behavioral challenges.
- 35:48It's just a small strategy to
- 35:49at least stop the thing that's
- 35:51occurring in that moment so that
- 35:53the person who's getting offended
- 35:54does not sustain even more hurt.
- 35:58So it's disrupting the stream
- 36:00and changing the direction.
- 36:01We're not here to talk about that.
- 36:03Let's talk about
- 36:04your chest pain.
- 36:08What about the new figures
- 36:09from the data set? Why
- 36:11don't we look at those?
- 36:13So this the second one,
- 36:14what about the new figures from
- 36:16the data set is not something
- 36:18that you're saying to a patient,
- 36:19but sometimes when you're in a in
- 36:22a situation where the hierarchy
- 36:23and the power dynamic is such that
- 36:26it's hard to intervene directly,
- 36:28sometimes destruction itself would
- 36:30at least stop it and take the
- 36:32conversation in a different direction.
- 36:36Racism and sexism are not psychiatric
- 36:39disorders even for patients
- 36:41who have cognitive deficits.
- 36:43The what we have seen and this is proven
- 36:48when we had several such insults occurring
- 36:51in the Vaer where in the psych ER.
- 36:54So the psych ER we're seeing a
- 36:56lot of these insults where the
- 36:58N word was used against nurses.
- 37:00A lot of different insults were thrown on
- 37:02a very routine fashion by by patients.
- 37:05Once we implemented these four DS,
- 37:08including the distract and disrupt,
- 37:11these diminished significantly to
- 37:1320% because even when the patient
- 37:16is not with it intoxicated or having
- 37:19a cognitive deficit event,
- 37:21they are still able to retain
- 37:23what you're telling them.
- 37:23This is not accepted here by which is
- 37:27direct intervention or when you disrupt it.
- 37:30It is important that we do that
- 37:32at least to stop the damage,
- 37:35so we'll try and do some practice
- 37:37scenarios now.
- 37:40The idea is for me to see if someone would
- 37:46perhaps volunteer.
- 37:47I'm going to play out some scenarios
- 37:50and Ben and I will take the lead
- 37:52in prompting you to see if you
- 37:55can use your professional voice.
- 37:56So I'll introduce the first scenario.
- 37:59When we go into this,
- 38:01the main strategy is just to review again.
- 38:04For direct intervention you would use
- 38:06clarifying or checking the comment
- 38:08or gesture, setting expectations,
- 38:10naming the offence For defending
- 38:13and supporting.
- 38:14Highlight contributions,
- 38:15recognize value, basically your defend,
- 38:18lift support and you can use any of
- 38:21these in any of these scenarios.
- 38:23Delegation and report.
- 38:24Tell us a little bit if you are
- 38:26thinking of perhaps this is something
- 38:29that would go to that reporting
- 38:31pathway and then distracting and
- 38:33de escalating so we can start.
- 38:35Is there a volunteer for the first scenario?
- 38:38Before I play it?
- 38:47I volunteer his tribute.
- 38:49Awesome. Thank you so much.
- 38:51This is wonderful.
- 38:52So you are in the room.
- 38:54You are this physician
- 38:55who's standing right here,
- 38:57and you're in with a patient who is
- 39:00a major endowment donor to Yale who
- 39:03unfortunately had to come to the
- 39:05resident clinic today because of an
- 39:06emergent visit that they had to make.
- 39:08Usually they end up just seeing you alone.
- 39:11She's here and you have a trainee
- 39:14who's standing right here.
- 39:15You'll see her as I play the scenario.
- 39:17The trainee's name is Doctor White
- 39:20and the patient has already said some
- 39:23things to kind of challenge the name of
- 39:27challenging the name of that trainee,
- 39:29making fun.
- 39:30And you have hopefully checked that.
- 39:32But now we are at the point where the
- 39:36trainee is going to examine the patient.
- 39:39And let's see if you can you
- 39:42tell me how you would address it.
- 39:44So let's play it.
- 39:50Go ahead, Doctor
- 39:53White, can you volume up? Yeah.
- 39:55I don't know what happened to the volume.
- 40:00OK, back off, back off. You know,
- 40:04I'm not your kind that you can
- 40:06treat me so roughly. I
- 40:08mean, where did where
- 40:10did you even go to school?
- 40:11I couldn't have been
- 40:12here. So this was odd because it was
- 40:15playing beautifully for the video
- 40:16and the audio part before, right.
- 40:19You want to just maybe stop it
- 40:22and restart it then. I mean,
- 40:24go out of screen share and try again.
- 40:26I don't. Hopefully. Yeah,
- 40:29yeah. Or maybe even try without the
- 40:32optimizing the sound. You think undress.
- 40:36Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Because maybe
- 40:37because we played last time. Yeah,
- 40:39yeah, Maybe that's the problem.
- 40:42Let me do that without optimizing it.
- 40:50OK. You can see the screen, right? Yes,
- 40:59No, no. And the and the video is choppy.
- 41:02I'll be the patient. So the patient,
- 41:06the Doctor White is leaning towards the
- 41:09patient now ready to examine the knee
- 41:11which is the reason for this visit.
- 41:13And the patient basically says go
- 41:15ahead Doctor White first making fun
- 41:18of the patient of the trainee's name
- 41:20because she has already made fun
- 41:22of that before, and then says OK,
- 41:23you can go ahead and examine me.
- 41:25Doctor White then examines the knee and
- 41:28has barely touched it and is trying
- 41:30to manipulate it just a little bit.
- 41:31When the patient feels the pain and
- 41:34screams out at the trainee saying
- 41:38I'm not your kind,
- 41:39that you can touch me this way,
- 41:42you have to be gentle with me.
- 41:44Where do you even go to school?
- 41:46Certainly not here.
- 41:48And she's looking at you,
- 41:50trying to make you an ally because she
- 41:52thinks that you can relate to her.
- 41:54You went to school here,
- 41:55you she can identify with and she says
- 41:58she clearly didn't go to school here,
- 42:00did she? And then ends up saying,
- 42:04go back to your school,
- 42:06go back to your country, Get out of here.
- 42:09What would you say or do?
- 42:14OK, so sorry. Who was the volunteer?
- 42:18I was the volunteer.
- 42:20OK Phillip, Is I I see your name?
- 42:22Phillip, Is that correct?
- 42:23Yeah, That's great. OK.
- 42:25So Phillip, if I can just ask,
- 42:27do you, do you see any offense
- 42:29committed in this scenario,
- 42:34sort of multiple offenses using
- 42:36that the using the patient,
- 42:39the patient's race as a as
- 42:42a doorway to offend and also
- 42:47apparently her apparent age and
- 42:50then also her position.
- 42:52So I think those three things
- 42:55are being used
- 42:57are are being offended. Absolutely.
- 42:59So placing yourself in the in the
- 43:02duct on the white coat
- 43:04in the real in real time.
- 43:06What strategies do you think you
- 43:08would what voice would you be able to
- 43:10use or do you think you would use.
- 43:13I would say something along the
- 43:16lines of whatever the patient's name is.
- 43:19You know, ma'am, I can tell that you're
- 43:20in a lot of pain right now, but that's
- 43:22no excuse for
- 43:23you to speak to this physician this way.
- 43:26She's simply trying to help you.
- 43:29And I would sort of kind of go right there.
- 43:33So you kind of start things.
- 43:35How does that sound? Yeah.
- 43:38So that's basically you're going
- 43:40straight at it directly, I mean,
- 43:42politely but directly intervening and
- 43:44saying that this is not acceptable in our,
- 43:46in our health system.
- 43:48And I like that you're starting
- 43:50with acknowledging the pain,
- 43:53so, so I think that's excellent.
- 43:54There's also room to to,
- 43:57I would say there's room to to defend
- 43:59and support but I I do agree that after
- 44:01the direct intervention hopefully
- 44:02that will nip it in the in the board.
- 44:08Some things I would say as an as a
- 44:11upstander just some general things.
- 44:13When you notice an offence,
- 44:16it's best to speak for yourself.
- 44:21In other words to say,
- 44:23I know you're in a lot of pain,
- 44:25man, I do not think you.
- 44:27I I don't think,
- 44:28I mean this one is different.
- 44:29You can say there's no need to
- 44:31talk to the trainee like that.
- 44:33Doctor White is,
- 44:34is simply here to help you, etcetera.
- 44:36But depending on the scenario,
- 44:37sometimes because for instance,
- 44:38if it was something that you, you know,
- 44:41let's say it was another kind of
- 44:43racial scenario where you said,
- 44:44oh, I don't think,
- 44:47I don't think
- 44:50Mr. John being a black man
- 44:52like what you said. Right.
- 44:54So rather than that, it would be like,
- 44:56I don't think what you said is acceptable.
- 44:58I don't think what you said,
- 44:59I think what you said is, is,
- 45:03is it's is there a racial microaggression,
- 45:08something like that.
- 45:09But but yeah, So directly intervene.
- 45:11Does anybody else,
- 45:13thank you very much,
- 45:13Philip, directly intervene?
- 45:14Does anybody else want to share
- 45:16what they would say before
- 45:18we move on to another case?
- 45:20Yeah, this is Fred Chrome.
- 45:24I have a little problem with this
- 45:27case and it's an ethical problem
- 45:29that as offensive as the patient is,
- 45:33as out of line as she is, she's expect.
- 45:38She's expressed a preference, hasn't she?
- 45:41Even though she's done it in a rather
- 45:43foul way, she says I do not want you
- 45:46to touch me if this is her knee.
- 45:48If this is an intimate exam,
- 45:51you then have to stop and say
- 45:55should I withdraw.
- 45:56The patient has told me she does
- 45:59not want me examining her ethically.
- 46:01If I am patient centered,
- 46:04regardless of what I think about the patient,
- 46:07I have to take that into account.
- 46:09And I have been in,
- 46:11I remember years ago as a trainee starting,
- 46:16you know, into a routine pelvic
- 46:20for a patient to do screening and
- 46:23she looked very uncomfortable and
- 46:25I said is there anything wrong?
- 46:28She said, I'm really not happy
- 46:30with a man doing this exam.
- 46:32I want a woman.
- 46:34Now.
- 46:34I went back and I told my staff and she
- 46:37said that's the most absurd thing I heard.
- 46:39You tell her that you're a trainee
- 46:41and you're here to get experience
- 46:44and her preference doesn't count.
- 46:46I said I'm sorry, I can't do that.
- 46:50I see a little of the same happening here.
- 46:53And I wonder how an ethicist
- 46:54would respond to it.
- 46:57Very good point there, Frederick.
- 46:59Thank you. I, I, I would say
- 47:01you, you you need a contrarian
- 47:03in every group, right? Yes,
- 47:04Yes, yes. No, no, no.
- 47:06Thank you for bringing that up.
- 47:07I would say there are two things.
- 47:08So patience, yes,
- 47:10patience can to patience can to some
- 47:14extent where services are available
- 47:17and can be accommodated requests
- 47:20certain care from certain individuals.
- 47:23But what patients cannot do is be abusive
- 47:27about it in the way they go about it.
- 47:29For instance,
- 47:32ultimately patients can switch physicians.
- 47:34Patients can say at some point I'd
- 47:36rather have a woman and then if we have,
- 47:38if if we have a,
- 47:39a a female physician that's available
- 47:41and willing to look after the patient,
- 47:43then that can occur.
- 47:44But that we don't always have
- 47:47those options in real time.
- 47:49You know,
- 47:49especially when it comes if you're
- 47:52a trauma center and level 1 trauma
- 47:55and at those at that time most
- 47:57patients are not that choosy at all.
- 48:00But but I do take your point.
- 48:02So I I think the patient does have the
- 48:04right to request a different service.
- 48:06But even before the trainee had started,
- 48:08she was already, I think,
- 48:09being a bit abusive.
- 48:10Yeah,
- 48:11I think both things can be true.
- 48:14Yeah, that and I think,
- 48:17you know somebody should address in
- 48:20a polite manner as I think it was
- 48:24Philip who did you know and had a very,
- 48:27very excellent response to say,
- 48:30you know, I'm sorry for your pain but
- 48:35it's not appropriate to be abusive to
- 48:38to students or members of the staff.
- 48:41Now then the other thing kicks in.
- 48:43So these are not mutually exclusive.
- 48:46That that's my only thought and
- 48:49I'll be quiet. Oh no,
- 48:52thank you. Thanks for your confusion.
- 48:54Any other comments? Yeah, sure.
- 48:57Ben, may I speak to just.
- 48:58Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
- 49:00So you bring up a great point.
- 49:02And I agree with Ben.
- 49:03What he said.
- 49:04I think it's just very important
- 49:05to find out the reason.
- 49:07So if a patient is asking for a
- 49:09different provider because they they
- 49:10have sustained sexual harassment in
- 49:11the past and now they get triggered
- 49:14every time a male provider touches
- 49:15their genitals or breasts and even
- 49:17if it's a physician doing that,
- 49:19they get triggered.
- 49:20That's a completely different
- 49:22reason compared to someone who is
- 49:24clearly being racist and is throwing
- 49:26the the trainee out of the room
- 49:27saying go back to your own country,
- 49:30where did you even get educated?
- 49:32That is blatant racism.
- 49:33So I think you can definitely put
- 49:35your foot down there and it it doesn't
- 49:38have to be that we have to throw
- 49:40the trainee at them because it is
- 49:42very possible that that patient may
- 49:44remain offensive to that trainee.
- 49:46So by forcing that relationship,
- 49:48we are forcing the trainee to continue
- 49:50sustaining that kind of consult.
- 49:52But you have to check that behavior,
- 49:54you have to call it out,
- 49:55you have to name the offense,
- 49:57tell them this is not the expectation
- 49:59and then ask the trainee to make
- 50:01the autonomous decision if they
- 50:02still want to continue providing
- 50:04care to that patient.
- 50:05So
- 50:05I I I think that's exactly the right thing.
- 50:10Not, not that you needed me to tell you
- 50:12that, but as I was listening to you,
- 50:14I thought that's exactly right.
- 50:17Yeah. But thank you both of you,
- 50:20Philip and Fred for for speaking up.
- 50:22I hope we will have another
- 50:24volunteer for the next one.
- 50:26Can I shall I leave your your call,
- 50:29But I think that in the last
- 50:31five minutes or 6 minutes,
- 50:33we should also leave a minute or
- 50:35two to file to fill the evaluation.
- 50:38And my suggestion would be not to
- 50:39leave that to the very last minute,
- 50:41but maybe do the evaluation now.
- 50:43And if you know, if everybody does that,
- 50:45then we can see the the next case or two.
- 50:48Anyway, just a thought,
- 50:49yeah, no that's good.
- 50:50So what I'll do is I'm going to
- 50:53stop sharing and just talk to people
- 50:55because it's important for me to like
- 50:58actually see people when we talk.
- 50:59And I can give you another scenario,
- 51:03because the video and audio are not
- 51:05behaving themselves anyway, so will Ben.
- 51:07Is it OK if we just do one more and then
- 51:11we just open up the open up the floor
- 51:14so the next one, let's say a trainee,
- 51:17comes to you and report,
- 51:19starts reporting in successive fashion.
- 51:22She initially comes to you.
- 51:24You are their supervisor.
- 51:26She trusts you.
- 51:27She's been your mentee for for a
- 51:29while now and she comes to you.
- 51:31She tells you that I was examining a
- 51:34patient today in the on my clinical service.
- 51:37I was with my attending physician and
- 51:39as I was telling the patient about
- 51:41what the next steps are going to be,
- 51:44the patient winked at me.
- 51:45My attending saw it but did not say anything.
- 51:49Would you say anything at this
- 51:50time if you were the attending,
- 51:52let's say if you were in the room
- 51:55with that patient and the trainee,
- 51:58would you have said anything for a wink?
- 52:07Does anyone want to volunteer?
- 52:09Because I'm going to go to the next
- 52:11step to this, so if someone wants
- 52:12to volunteer that would be great.
- 52:17Can you repeat the specific question?
- 52:19I I heard the case but I
- 52:20didn't hear the question. So
- 52:21a trainee is reporting that she
- 52:23was running on a patient on the
- 52:25inpatient floor with her attending.
- 52:27They went into the room,
- 52:28they were talking to the patient and
- 52:30the patient winked at the trainee.
- 52:31It's a female trainee.
- 52:33She was winked at.
- 52:34The attending is a male doctor.
- 52:36He saw it. Let's say you were in
- 52:40the room with being the attending.
- 52:42Would you have said anything if the
- 52:44if a patient winked at your training
- 52:48and it was a suggestive wink.
- 52:50It was not a wink. As to Oh yeah,
- 52:52we'll both we both know that
- 52:54we eat salt. It's not that.
- 52:56That was gonna be my first question is,
- 52:59you know, is this. My first instinct
- 53:01would be to say, I'm Jordan
- 53:03Zinn, by the way, from the VA,
- 53:05My first instinct would be to say,
- 53:07did you just wink? Did you wink?
- 53:09Like did this just happen?
- 53:10And then to try and figure out, like,
- 53:12all right, what kind of a wink was this?
- 53:14But I've been in this situation
- 53:17before and I have failed to do it.
- 53:19I've let it slide and
- 53:20then regretted it later.
- 53:22So I would hope that I would say
- 53:25something like, did you just wink?
- 53:26Did this happen?
- 53:27And if they say yeah, I would say
- 53:29we we can't do that here
- 53:32tell me why you regretted it later.
- 53:36Wait what What's that?
- 53:38Why did you regret it later?
- 53:40Well I talked with the my student
- 53:42later and I said I in my in the
- 53:45case I'm thinking of it was
- 53:47AI think he said cutie to her
- 53:49instead of her name. And I
- 53:52was, I didn't, didn't say anything.
- 53:54But later I took her aside and
- 53:56I said that probably didn't feel
- 53:57very good that he said that.
- 53:59And she said, no, it did not.
- 54:01And I think I said,
- 54:02were you wanting me to maybe
- 54:04do something about that?
- 54:05And she said, well, you know, maybe
- 54:07she didn't want to, to get
- 54:09me angry as a supervisor.
- 54:11But I sensed from her that
- 54:13she wished I had done more.
- 54:16And then I went home that day thinking,
- 54:18I gotta, I gotta think about
- 54:20this a little bit more.
- 54:21I can't just brush it off, Charlie.
- 54:23I can just share something.
- 54:25Just this morning I'm on
- 54:26service just rounding.
- 54:27I had a patient who has,
- 54:30who has dementia as one of many,
- 54:32many medical problems.
- 54:33And I was there standing on the right.
- 54:35The nurse was standing on
- 54:36the left doing something.
- 54:37And the patients,
- 54:37I was talking to him and he says,
- 54:39Oh, yeah, he's he's OK today as
- 54:41long as he can get to flirt with
- 54:43the pretty nurses in quote. Right.
- 54:45And so even though he has dementia,
- 54:47I'm just trying to go to your point.
- 54:48And I said, you know, Mr.
- 54:50Suso, And so that is not appropriate.
- 54:53That's not what we're here for.
- 54:56Everyone's here to help you
- 54:57and you're here to get help.
- 54:58And he stopped it, right.
- 54:59Even though he had his dementia,
- 55:01he completely stopped it.
- 55:02And he said even as he was leaving,
- 55:03he was like, OK,
- 55:04I know you guys don't appreciate
- 55:06my funny jokes and I didn't laugh
- 55:08and and but he was able to stop it
- 55:10right there despite the fact that
- 55:11there was some cognitive issues.
- 55:13So this is important and I'll quickly
- 55:15finish because we are literally on time,
- 55:17but it's important because
- 55:19this actually occurred.
- 55:20A patient winked the first
- 55:22day wasn't checked.
- 55:24The next day when they were
- 55:25examining the patient,
- 55:26the patient lifted his shirt all
- 55:27the way and said, yeah, go ahead and
- 55:29touch me anywhere wasn't checked.
- 55:30The attending still did not say anything.
- 55:33The the trainee went ahead
- 55:34and examined the patient.
- 55:36The third day she was pre
- 55:37dawning at 6:00 in the morning.
- 55:38There was no one else in the room.
- 55:40The patient pulled her into the bed,
- 55:42fondled her.
- 55:43It was the most traumatic experience.
- 55:46Could this have been checked if the
- 55:48the attending had spoken at the wink?
- 55:49We don't know.
- 55:51But that is why it's important.
- 55:53When you notice something
- 55:55which is even a gesture,
- 55:57if you call it out and you check,
- 55:59hopefully we'll be able to prevent
- 56:01at least some of the escalation,
- 56:02which then goes forward
- 56:04because they feel empowered.
- 56:05They feel like, Yep,
- 56:06I can keep doing whatever.
- 56:08Most of the sexual offenders
- 56:10always start with something small.
- 56:12No one goes and just takes a resident
- 56:15and does physical assault on them.
- 56:18Ellie, I'm. I'm sorry, I want to ask folks,
- 56:23Linda just circulated in the chat AQR
- 56:25code or a click thingy to give the
- 56:29evaluation and I think it's it's really
- 56:31important for us and and sorry to,
- 56:32to cut the fund to do this,
- 56:34but it's important for three reasons.
- 56:36One is that Shaylee and Ben have
- 56:40worked really hard at this and
- 56:42we want them to get feedback.
- 56:45And two is that we're planning
- 56:47ahead for the next series.
- 56:50All right, I'm sorry. OK.
- 56:52I'm just trying to go to the
- 56:53slide that you told me to go to.
- 56:55So. So there is a again,
- 56:58yeah, there you have and in
- 57:00the chat you also have the,
- 57:02the link that you can click on
- 57:04and if you've been good and
- 57:09finished your your evaluation,
- 57:10you get to ask a question.
- 57:11But if you've been naughty you
- 57:13don't get to ask a question
- 57:14until you finish your evaluation.
- 57:15So we have maybe time for a question,
- 57:17for a question or two
- 57:24quick question. I filled,
- 57:25filled my I I filled out my form.
- 57:28I'm nice, not naughty.
- 57:31But it seems like as a general theme
- 57:33in many of in the cases you presented,
- 57:36the first step I I mean is certainly,
- 57:39you know, acknowledge to
- 57:40yourself that it happened.
- 57:41Yes, I really did see that.
- 57:44You know don't try to you know
- 57:46rationalize it away And then you're
- 57:49saying inquire with the patient.
- 57:51Did I see this right.
- 57:53I mean am I understanding you
- 57:56correctly to always to to sort
- 57:58of check back and then you know,
- 58:01based on the response,
- 58:02you know,
- 58:04make your point regarding sexism
- 58:06isn't OK racial bias isn't OK in a
- 58:10way that people can understand but
- 58:13in itself is is tolerant and and
- 58:18doesn't have any abuse about that.
- 58:21Do do I understand those as the 123?
- 58:24Yes, absolutely. We summarize
- 58:26it pretty well, Ben. OK
- 58:30yeah, absolutely. Yes.
- 58:31I I agree with you because you you
- 58:34start with your own ward view.
- 58:35What lens am I using? Am I noticing it?
- 58:38Not trying to block it with my
- 58:41own ward view and I have to turn
- 58:43from a bystander to an upstander,
- 58:45but I have to do it safely.
- 58:47Yeah. And effectively. Yeah.
- 58:50That as I I didn't put it in my evaluation,
- 58:52but I'm thinking that probably was
- 58:55explicit somewhere in the talk.
- 58:57Maybe I turned away.
- 58:58But if it wasn't, you know,
- 59:00if people can walk away with things like
- 59:03here's the 123 of being an upstander,
- 59:06then that that makes it an easy lesson
- 59:09to transfer into clinical settings.
- 59:12And thank you so much. Thank you.
- 59:16OK. Well, thank you, Ben, and thank you,
- 59:21Dailey for a great session. And we'll
- 59:24see you all at next series of. Yes,
- 59:31thank you. Thank you, everyone.
- 59:32Thanks for your time. Thank
- 59:33you so much.
- 59:34Thank you so much. It was very important,
- 59:39very important. Thank you. Thank
- 59:43you.