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According to her, the family member of a patient she followed at the Cornell School of Medicine physically assaulted her. For my immediate purpose, I will assume she did not invent this story. Herzog had already written extensively about a disturbing trend toward subordinating medicine to leftist politics. That includes the record of an interview she gave to one Katie Herzog. Everything I am about to say is a matter of record. In discussing the case history of Aruna Khilanani, I do not speak out-of-school. Chronic – an adjective describing a disease or syndrome with long-term effect.Īruna Khilanani and her unfortunate case history.Acute – an adjective describing a disease or syndrome with immediate or short-term effect.Post traumatic stress disorder – the aftermath of an unusually stressful event.Paranoia vera – true paranoia, a psychosis with paranoid ideation as the primary presenting symptom.Paranoid ideation – a set of ideas a patient might have that includes an exaggerated sense of the patient’s own importance, intelligence – and persecution.Projection – a symptom in which the patient accuses others of his own faults – literally, “throws off” on others.Insight – the capacity to recognize a psychological problem in one’s own thinking.Such a person might divorce himself from reality. Psychosis – a condition in which the patient doesn’t understand or doesn’t want to understand that something is wrong with his or her thinking.

Neurosis – a condition in which the patient knows something is wrong with him/her but doesn’t quite understand what.

One also uses the term to describe symptoms the cause of which even the profession does not know.

Syndrome – a collection of symptoms that could have any of many causes.

Disease – a condition with a clear definition not only of symptoms but of their causes.

Sign – an anomaly one might measure on physical or laboratory examination.

Symptom – something about which a patient may complain.

Grand rounds – a lecture for the benefit of medical staff and students.

Rounds – the practice of visiting each patient one is following, to check on clinical progress.

Clinical clerk – a junior medical student gaining his/her first exposure to patient management.

One distinguishes such a person from an intern(e), or a first-year resident.

Extern(e) – a senior medical student taking advanced training in patient management but not a member of the house staff.

In most programs, one chief resident in each department gives orders to all other house staff in that department. These are the trainees, who have their medical degrees.

Resident – a member of the “house staff” of a teaching hospital.

This does not happen in community hospitals.)

(Teaching hospitals also often credential new attending physicians as part of granting them faculty appointments. But after they have their three years in (as a “courtesy physician”), a hospital will still call them “attendings.” And in a teaching hospital, the attendings are the professors. Pathologists, radiologists, and anesthesiologists do not normally admit patients. The term also applies to any physician who has served on a hospital medical staff for, say, three years. Attending – a physician having admitting privileges at a hospital.Besides, my readers need to understand these terms to grasp the context of this letter. Your academic background is in social psychology, not in psychiatry or other medical practice. Salovey, I will share a glossary of terms you might or might not recognize. And what you cannot excuse, is that this happened on your watch. And at worst someone gave her a platform to start a race war. At best, someone exploited a sufferer from chronic post-traumatic stress disorder who presents with paranoid ideation from an unfortunate episode. In the language to which I became accustomed in the course of my training, I find this exercise totally inappropriate. That manifesto arises out of her paranoid ideation of which I find ample history from a simple Internet engine search. Serra, as Senior Administrative Assistant, and the faculty of the Psychiatry Department either exploited a very troubled woman or else lent her a platform for a dangerous political manifesto.

She titled her talk, “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind.” Incredibly, one Rosemary Serra booked this talk for Grand Rounds at the Yale Child Study Center. As you know, that talk took place by Zoom teleconference on 6 April 2021. I write today to express my outrage over the “Continuing Medical Educational” talk by Aruna Khilanani, M.D., M.A.