My neighbour in Wadeye, a white lady who has worked here for years, calls me: “Don’t leave your vehicle parked outside overnight. The kids congregate for fighting quite close by. Your car will be a great temptation, an alternative to a fight for bored kids”. Then she adds: “Come...
now a days they have a pill for everything. I have never heard of so many disorders in my life time as you hear about now. Bipolar is so easily thrown around that people use this excuse for being rude, disrespectful, and down right mean.You can be in a bad mood go see a doctor...
Regarding language use, some students expressed that their study material sometimes perpetu- ates stereotyping: "Recently, I had a lecture about 'the Eskimo people'. You cannot say that. […] that is also a swear word for those people" (participant 2). This stu- dent went on to ...
Her daughter has been trans-identified for eight years and briefly medicalized. Nagel wrote an earlier piece for 4thWaveNow in 2017. Here, Nagel provides an overview of the weak evidence being utilized by medical organizations to justify “affirmative care” for gender dysphoric young people. ...
When a patient is being critical, the listener accepts the criticism, or part of the criticism, even if it is untrue and repeats it back to the speaker. Example: Speaker: “You’re so stupid!” Listener: “Yes, I can see that you don’t think I’m that smart.” The word yes ...
Margaret often makes snide remarks about Elizabeth being “a big city girl with little experience” and belittles her when she speaks up at staff meetings. Several times over the past month, Elizabeth asked for assistance from Margaret and was told she needed to “learn to set priorities better...
it can be a very good thing indeed when it motivates skeptics and gives them the tools to join the fray. He also seems to think that we are incapable of nuance, but maybe that’s just projection. Come to think of it, maybe Dr. Prasad’s accusation of being controversial for the click...
” The assumption being that the topic was settled long ago. While I have great respect for the man who calls himself “The EMS Contrarian” and his robust body of writings (including by first EMS textbook), I respectfully disagree with the finality of some of his assertions. A great deal...
For example, for people who do not like the stigma of being called “anorexic” should we just say that they are “too skinny.” Some people do not like the stigma of being acancerpatient. Should we just say they just have “really badcells?” What about people who don’t like the ...
physical and sexual assault. While we are defining incivility broadly, it does not include behaviors such as being late or not knowing appropriate information about one’s patients, which more closely align with non-professional behavior. Incivility across the continuum of medical education has likely...