4.7 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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In this episode, I sit down with my daughter to discuss the brutal death of George Floyd, and the aftermath we are watching unfold. Though I have no expertise in race relations, law enforcement, or police brutality, I do have some knowledge in the training of physicians, and it is that training of doctors that I’ve been thinking about lately as it may offer one small insight into this crisis. In this very short discussion, we speak about three types of errors in medicine (and medical training), how to distinguish between the two variants that are acceptable, and the one that is unacceptable. My question, ultimately, is if such a framework can be applied to law enforcement?
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0:00.0 | If folks welcome to a special episode that deals with kind of the aftermath and some of the questions that are surrounding us in the wake of the brutal death of George Floyd. |
0:09.2 | A lot of people have been speaking about this in their own way, choosing to post various things on social media. |
0:14.0 | I've never really thought I had much to offer with respect to doing stuff like that. |
0:18.8 | For me, it's been a very difficult couple of days kind of just thinking about this stuff and not really knowing how to explain it to my daughter who has been asking a lot of questions about it. |
0:29.6 | I kind of wrestled with this idea of doing a podcast or not and in the end I sort of decided this evening after dinner that you know it's going to do this. |
0:36.8 | I live in a shutdown for maybe 20 minutes or something to talk about stuff that we have been talking about all week. |
0:43.5 | I really wanted to talk more in terms of something that I had some knowledge of. |
0:49.4 | I don't consider myself an expert in law enforcement, racism, the history of police brutality, all of the things that might factor into this. |
0:57.9 | But there is one area that I do think I have some knowledge in that I can speak to and it has to do with the training of physicians. |
1:05.0 | There's something I've thought a lot about. |
1:07.6 | So I approach this conversation with Olivia as I often approach conversations with her, which is sort of touching on a framework and an understanding. |
1:15.7 | Then maybe that's broader than this problem. |
1:18.1 | As with all podcasts, of course, I can't address all things and that's more true in this podcast than probably any podcast, however, produce. |
1:25.4 | But I do talk about one very particular way that I think about what's going on and perhaps more importantly how we can start to get a handle on it. |
1:35.2 | The spot guys might not be for you. |
1:36.8 | If it doesn't resonate with you, I apologize, but I think that for some folks, especially folks with kids who are struggling to kind of explain to them what's going on, perhaps you'll find this helpful. |
1:46.5 | Hi, Olivia. Thanks for sitting down to talk for a few minutes tonight. |
1:53.0 | Okay. |
1:53.9 | So there's been a lot going on for the last few days. |
1:56.7 | I know you're in the middle of finals and I know that if that weren't enough, you've got a quarantine going on that you're probably kind of at your wits end with. |
2:04.7 | But tell me a little bit about how you feel about the last few days and how you've heard about it and what you and your friends are talking about. |
2:12.5 | My first I was seeing it on everyone's Instagram justice for George and I was confused. I was like, what is that? |
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