Dumbstuck
“A fourth-year medical student at Wake Forest University … bragged on Twitter…”
I love, love, LOVE this story! A smug, entitled, fourth-year was so gleefully virtuous that she just had to go on Twitter to boast about intentionally missing a vein on a blood draw because the patient laughed at her pronoun pin. You can just hear the simpering little brat work herself into a we’re-at-the-cool-kids-table-and-you’re-not sneer: “I missed his vein so he had to get stuck twice.”
Kychelle Del Rosario, fourth-year med student has secured herself a place on the U.S. Moron Olympics Team, and she is going for the gold. The twice-jabbed patient’s crime? He saw a pronoun pin, presumably on the lapel of Del Rosario’s costume lab coat, and “loudly laugh(ed) to the staff, ‘She/Her? Well of course it is! What other pronouns are there?’”
The idiot student was bragging online to a fellow traveler in the realms of enlightened earnestness, an MD who wears a pronoun badge to help those “under the trans umbrella feel a little more comfy”, and then whined about how “several cis patients have berated me for it.” Apparently, this doctor missed that part in residency where you take daily skin thickener – what an absolute crybaby wimp, who I’m glad to say, deserved the derision as does her little cyber protégé.
Wake Forest mumbled out some typically cowardly, lawyered-up boilerplate about care, compassion, values, and blah, blah, blah. Del Rosario is a LGBTQWTFETC activist, who was a self-acclaimed leader in “Safe Zone in Medicine.” From her screechy pulpit, she scolded of her trans-trustees that they are “a population which the medical field has harmed greatly in the past…” This silly snowflake is oblivious to irony. MS4DR might think that she is, y’know, like really reaching people who need her, but I think that her motivation is to show everyone around her just how damn good SHE/HER is. This insufferable sort is the kind we saw these past two years that believed wearing a mask outdoors or wearing a paper gown on rounds in the ICU made her some sort of heroine, and gave her license to badger others into her Young Pioneer mindset.
This is a wonderful story not primarily because the assumed nobility of earnestness became the arrogance of a bully. This jerk won’t be tossed out of med school but she should be – not for a little minor aggression, but because she was dumb enough to publicly brag about it! Of course, Del Rosario will become DRDR (or DR2), because a woke drone factory like Wake Forest and far too many other med schools will not dare suspend or expel such beautiful intersectionality. No, this is a truly delicious scene because the self-important flower is in trouble by not meeting the public standards of the very profession which helped pump this toxicity into her brain, which reinforces her notions of ostentatious compassion, the profession she will no doubt join. And several years down the road, I hope she still has patients laughing at her, as I know I will be.
(And if I ever purchase a pronoun pin, it will read “Your Lordship / F**k Off”)
For a medical student bragg online about this physical assault and would purposely and intentionally cause harm how ever minimal to a patient for any reason, should never see graduation. But this being a woke medical school nothing will happen till the offended patient files a criminal charges and malpractice law suit against Woke Forrest University. Remember the neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch who killed his patients ? I wonder if this is how he started and was just pushed along .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9_EiSaNw3Q. this was all I could think of while reading this…
Why yes that has been my experience with female physician’s, NP’s and PA’s ,Mr Raalte. For last 40 plus years.
Times change,technology changes but Humans, no not much change.We are as arrogant, blind,self centered,
power hungry little tyrants as we always were.Manipulators all..Sort of comforting and Sad.Each generation has to learn the same crap,make the same dumb choices as generations before.. SO IT GOES…..
I should like now to share my pronoun with you. My choice has come from extensive contemplation and umbiliskepsis, trichotillomania and other profound non-Western forms of self-contemplation. My pronoun is I will post it here, and explain later, as it’s really all about me.
..ahem. I tried to post a link to my pronoun, but the WEBSITE didn’t automatically DISPLAY it. I am nettled, peeved, indignant. I blame Will Smith, Chris Rock and the Academy, the oppressive white male environment and everybody but me. Ahem. Here is the weblink to my pronoun glyph. https://farm2.static.flickr.com/1257/938970492_606e96fc04_b.jpg I have culturally appropriated it from Prince (Rogers Nelson), who is now expressing his non-aliveness as an alternative to lifestyle.
It is not verbally expressible. It is a micro-aggression from the phasic amute dominant subculture to assume that a pronoun must be pronounceable as well as recognizable. And this glyph has no verbal corollary – Prince insisted upon that. His former name only exists in written form. Therefore, it is the perfect pronoun to place on a personal pronoun pin, as nobody can say it
The elder stateshumans who read this site may remember Prince, and may even recall why the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince came out with this escapade. He actually got ticked off with Warner Records, whom he owed a few records to under contract, and insisted that everyone must refer to his identity as this unpronounceable symbol. He even made them rewrite all his contracts and documents to use The Glyph. You guessed it. He did it to be a pushy rich jerk. In his memory, I insist that you refer to me from now on as O(+>
In my community the most liberal female physician doctors proclaim their liberalness but don’t walk the talk. They were the first to retire. They were in specialties. They were married to other physicians and were rich. They dropped call at the youngest age.
I didn’t see any of them practicing primary Care at an inner City Hospital or taking extra ER call in an inner city hospital. This slack was taken up by the white males that Hillary would call deplorables and the leftist elites would call White privileged conservatives.
Aha, you’ve fallen into the doing/feeling dichotomy, I see. You should be ashamed. What matters most is feeling self-satisfied for one’s empathic intent. Doing is often hard, unpopular and thankless. Gravitating towards doing is nano-aggression. At least I feel that way.
I was puzzled by what a pronoun pin might mean. After some careful analysis, I concluded that it was a badge displaying one’s own favored pronoun of reference, attached to a white coat by piercing it with a sharp component of the badge – a pin. Surely Wake Forest is not trusting medical students with sharp objects. The consequences are revealed within a few sentences, in fact.
But I erroneously supposed that Wake Forest was issuing pronominal PINs, i.e. personal identification numbers, to purge henceforth the nano-aggression inherent in pronouns. Wake Forest Medical Students henceforth should be issued Personal Identification Numbers on admission, and should use them as both nominal and pronominal monikers throughout.
“Kychelle Del Rosario” is a discriminatory humanist-biased appellative which is picoaggressive towards those entities with numbers but no name. I suggest that she be known henceforth as 12a9:38df:4ace:348e:1766:8eb6:d31f:df46 This, as I’m sure you will recognize in a twinkle, is an IPv6 internet-compatible address, universally unique across the entire world – at least the one into which wires are attached. 12a9:38df:4ace:348e:1766:8eb6:d31f:df46 MD, as I’m sure that 12a9 will be known as next month, can thus remain unique without having to be objectified in the future. (BTW, the pronoun for each person is the first four characters before the colon.)
So, “Benjamin,” henceforth 44fa:c7e6:6328:908a:e5c4:55fb:c523:50fb we are renouncing our humanity so that we can be equal with all other things with IPv6 numbers. Like toasters. At least it does no harm, as “Hippocrates” (de1:9794:846c:f006:976f:2923:ae50:42cb) would have said.
I’m old enough to have graduated from a medical school class over 3/4 male. Things were changing, of course. The reactionary voices at the time were saying women entering medicine would just marry and quit. I thought that was just the voices of troglodytes. Maybe there would be a dip in work hours over the realities of chldbearing, but later on would be no different from males. At least that’s what I figured would happen.
Decades later, the data is in, and Benjamin Van Raalte has a point.
“Research shows that almost 40% of women physicians go part-time or leave medicine altogether within six years of completing their residencies.”
https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/why-women-leave-medicine
Maybe some just get married and stay at home.:Some have problems with childcare.
There’s a regulatory problem too. The Boards treat a woman who took a year off to have a baby, the same as a doctor who took a year off for drug rehab. The women get treated like a troubled physician, going through the expensive reassessment programs.
If I were in the position of a lady doctor/new mother getting lumped in with the “troubled” physician, facing tens of thousands of dollars for “assessment” programs, restricted licensure, mandatory proctoring, for the “crime” of having a baby, I might reconsider whether I wanted to re-enter a field that eats its young.