awino-abeno

on TL doctors: the fact that you went to medical school doesn't make your public opinions unquestionable. your expertise is respected, but in a world where access to information is widespread, it cannot be the final word we live in a time where disciplines are interconnected, where someone from another field might have read the same research, or bring insight from lived experience that your training hasn't prepared you for we must let go of the idea that certain types of knowledge can only belong to an "elite few" in response to Dr Solomon Kimera, many women have pushed back on his bad joke—not as scientists, but as people who live in their bodies. and that matters lived experience is not a substitute for clinical training, but it is a valid form of knowledge. knowing their body, their cycles, their health history, their fertility choices—these are not trivial they are not inferior to textbook understanding. they are parallel truths that deserve to be heard, especially when the topic is so personal and intimate this is where humility must enter professional spaces expertise is not only found in peer-reviewed journals; it is also found in pain thresholds, in trauma survived, in years of managing chronic conditions, in knowing when something feels off in your own body long before a scan confirms it a good doctor gains more insight listening to a patient who has battled an illness more than any textbook will ever teach and now, in an era where AI models can pass medical board tests, the line between possession of information and the authority to use it is thinner than ever while AI doesn't replace medical practitioners, it does prove something important: information is no longer gated the privilege, then, lies not in knowing, but in practicing. in being there when theory meets consequence. in standing accountable when outcomes are uncertain so yes, pride yourself on your clinical practice—the ward rounds, the call shifts, the real-world messiness that a Google search can't prepare anyone for. that practice is sacred, and it should be defended but don't use it to silence people. use it to serve because when people speak about their bodies, their freedoms, their lived truths—they're not trying to compete with your expertise they're trying to complement it. they're asking to be seen, not diagnosed and in that moment, what's needed is not just exceptional brilliance, but empathy adios 👋