MedMonkey, DO

Move over Shakespeare, teen girls are the real language disruptors

I’m on quartz! I really want to excerpt the whole thing, so you should just go there and read it. Here’s a bonus paragraph that didn’t end up fitting in the article: 

Criticizing any disadvantaged group for their language is confusing cause and effect – we don’t like the language because we don’t like the people, not vice versa. But if you still don’t believe me, how about an experiment? Try deeply respecting young women for a few generations. Perhaps they’ll start sounding less tentative, or perhaps we’ll all learn to stop conflating the content of what you say with the style of how you say it.

(via calystarose)

All of this. I’m really troubled by how many people I’ve witnessed reflexively reacting against the efforts to draw attention to the phenomenon of policing young women’s voices (on the radio thanks to This American Life and Terry Gross) and then going on to claim there’s no gendered element to it. C’mon, particularly in cases like vocal fry where men are doing the exact same thing with zero complaint. The phenomenon I see at work here: way too many people feel actively discomfitted by the voices of young women. The tenor, the language, the verbal style – and so I don’t think it’s a leap to say seemingly by their existence in the conversation at all. What’s being said is not really “stop talking that way” it’s “I don’t want to listen to what you have to say.” 

And that, friends, makes me want to, like, smash.

In both work and observing, I have learned something about kids. A lot of parents try to get their boys to go fight. Of the young ones that do, they tend to be shy. You get the ones who just swing the boffer swords around with no regard for life, but, mostly, they’re reserved. It’s adorable. I mean, they’re kids.

Since the U.S. Senate is voting on legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, I am posting this again.

BREAKING: The effort to defund Planned Parenthood has FAILED in the Senate. This is great news!!

Soure: Planned Parenthood Action

WHOOO HOOO!!!! 

More Info: GOP plan to defund Planned Parenthood stalls in the Senate

CURRENT MOOD:

Yes.

We were told this at the beginning of third year: If you are a physician in America you will be able to live comfortably and you will (eventually) pay off your student loans.

I have had a lot of people ask me what I wanna be when I grow up since I’ve been on surgery rotation (probably because I’m finally interacting with new people as a med student on the reg). While I usually express it as just an interest, my heart is in Family Med and anyone with eyes can see that it’s where I excel. When I excel with a patient, it’s not because I’m good at suturing their fascia closed.

And every time I say it, I get told that I’ll be poor. That I won’t be able to pay off my med school loans. That I’ll struggle financially.

Hm, so I debated whether to post this or not.. ehh

So I’m an Asian, but because of the nature of the anonymity of this blog, I will not state which one. 

Growing up, I grew up in a mostly white neighborhood and never fit in. I remember times when the other kids wouldn’t play with me or they would leave when I got close. It slowly got better - mostly because I was blindly persistent and too young to really fathom the concept of racism. The funny thing was, you would think the Asian community would be my safe-ground, but it wasn’t. I grew up on the “wrong” side of town and went to the “wrong” school, so not only did I not fit in with the white neighborhood where I grew up, I didn’t even fit in with the Asian one there. 

For awhile, I toed the line, then I got into shit, then I stopped caring what others thought and hung out with whoever I felt like, regardless of cliques (because I’d had enough of that from the Asian community), and because there wasn’t much for me to do, I studied and read. A lot. Obsessively.

Undergrad was great in a way, even though I hated it. My school was extremely diverse, and I met many amazing people there. It’s sad that it’s that diversity that I miss most about being in medical school. Once again, I’m trapped in a mostly white community, and boy oh boy does it show. I’ve had friends/classmates tell me, “You drive like an Asian!” Excuse me? How about I drive like a tired medical student who hasn’t slept in x hours. ”Oh, I only said that [racist thing] because random was here”. And that makes it better/different how?

Anyway, the thing that I’ve been thinking about lately, since I’m coming toward the end of my second year (and boards.. ugh) is - what do I want to do with my life? What kind of doctor do I want to be? Initially, I thought that I would be maybe a hospitalist or perhaps an ER doc as I hate the idea of having to run a practice, but lately I’ve been thinking… 

My mom is a family practice doctor, and for whatever reason, she’s the only one of our ethnicity (who’s primary care) in the area. Literally, patients will drive an hour to an hour and half to see her because it makes them more at ease and they are unable to see another doctor because of the language barrier (or they feel uncomfortable because of the language barrier. Well, whatever the reason…). When she retires, where will these patients go? Who will take her place (who would take her place with the amount the medical education costs?)? Should I go back to take care of those patients or do I go a completely different route? 

Anyway, just the ramblings of a med student who doesn’t feel like studying for boards. 

And we have to score at least a 475 on it in order to take boards. I did well enough. My score wasn’t exactly what I wanted, but it was sufficient so I at least don’t have to waste money on a different COMSAE.

I just wanted to hang out with friends after, and I hung out with the wrong friend. It was like talking to a self absorbed piece of shit. I literally just wanted human freaking contact. I hate not being in Indianapolis. I miss my friends. I miss my family. I miss having people I could rely on. I love Chicago itself, but I have no one here who I can actually talk to about life (outside of beyondtheoath but his phone sucks, and I could hardly hear him.) 

That’s a little ridiculous.

Of course, they only proctor part A.