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2 years ago

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Posted On: July 3rd 2024, 01:24 pm

From Match Day to their first day, our new class of interns has joined the Cincinnati Children's team! Help us welcome the sixty new pediatricians-in-training who join us from 37 different medical schools!

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2 months ago

chbtalks

What hurts the most is that, as a Black family, we came asking for help before something tragic happened. We told the psychiatric team that our child was a threat to herself and that we feared for the safety of the other children in the home. Yet we still walked away feeling unheard and unprotected. When Black families are telling medical professionals, “Our child is not safe,” and those warnings are not taken seriously, what are we supposed to believe? Are we only worthy of attention after one of our children is seriously injured or dead? Do we have to become another tragedy, another statistic, another grieving Black family before our concerns matter? I cannot claim to know what was in anyone’s heart, but I can speak to what this experience communicated to me: our Black child’s life did not feel valued. Black children deserve protection while they are still alive. They deserve intervention before there is a funeral. They deserve doctors who listen when their families say something is dangerously wrong. We should not have to lose our children before someone decides their mental-health crisis was serious enough. Cincinnati Children’s Liberty Campus needs to seriously examine how Black children experiencing psychiatric emergencies are evaluated, how their families’ safety concerns are handled, and whether racial disparities are affecting these decisions. Our children deserve to come home because they are truly safe—not simply because they were discharged.