NC medical student brags on Twitter about deliberately harming patient who mocked her pronoun pin

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest has publicly stated that the student is “no longer involved in patient care activities “ so they clearly think it was wrong behavior as well.

So hope this is true. She really should be kicked out of the program and not allowed to graduate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

I don't know we've managed to have doctors without pronouns on their pins for hundreds + years.

What else should we include. Who they like to sex? Favorite ice cream?

The work place is not a dating profile.

And this does little to curb bigotry. Reports pps have posted are flawed.

And the med student should be relieved of her position. She doesn't have what it takes.

Clearly not with people like you

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest has publicly stated that the student is “no longer involved in patient care activities “ so they clearly think it was wrong behavior as well.

So hope this is true. She really should be kicked out of the program and not allowed to graduate.

CaNcEl cULtuRe

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest has publicly stated that the student is “no longer involved in patient care activities “ so they clearly think it was wrong behavior as well.

So hope this is true. She really should be kicked out of the program and not allowed to graduate.

CaNcEl cULtuRe

More like "actions have consequences" culture.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It was only this past Thanksgiving that I explained the concept of why people are stating pronouns to my dad, who is 74 and still works. I was explaining why people put their pronouns in their email signatures. He understood but wasn't sure he was comfortable doing that.

My mother, who was an abnormal psychology major, still thinks transgender people are a touch mentally ill.

I live in Winston-Salem and there are a lot of older, more conservative people living here. The patient maybe wasn’t up to date with pronoun usage and thought it was goofy for a person who was clearly a woman to wear a pin with her pronouns.

The patient was like 25 years old, friend.

[Anonymous]

I feel a little sorry for her tbh. What she did was wrong, but hopefully she can learn from this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest has publicly stated that the student is “no longer involved in patient care activities “ so they clearly think it was wrong behavior as well.

So hope this is true. She really should be kicked out of the program and not allowed to graduate.

CaNcEl cULtuRe

More like "actions have consequences" culture.

Seems like overkill to destroy her career over a dumb tweet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel a little sorry for her tbh. What she did was wrong, but hopefully she can learn from this.

Learn what, exactly. That as a physician, she will encounter, and is morally obligated to treat, people from all walks of life, some who have very different political views than she does? Or learn not to be so stupid and cavalier about what she posts on her narcissistic instagram account?

What exactly do you think that someone -- a grown adult who has made it to med school -- who is obviously this vindictive will "learn" from this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest has publicly stated that the student is “no longer involved in patient care activities “ so they clearly think it was wrong behavior as well.

So hope this is true. She really should be kicked out of the program and not allowed to graduate.

CaNcEl cULtuRe

More like "actions have consequences" culture.

Seems like overkill to destroy her career over a dumb tweet.

It wasn't the tweet sweetheart. It was that she intentionally caused harm and potential medical damage to someone she was supposed to be treating. Do you not understand that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest has publicly stated that the student is “no longer involved in patient care activities “ so they clearly think it was wrong behavior as well.

So hope this is true. She really should be kicked out of the program and not allowed to graduate.

CaNcEl cULtuRe

More like "actions have consequences" culture.

Seems like overkill to destroy her career over a dumb tweet.

Buy the ticket, take the ride

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It was only this past Thanksgiving that I explained the concept of why people are stating pronouns to my dad, who is 74 and still works. I was explaining why people put their pronouns in their email signatures. He understood but wasn't sure he was comfortable doing that.

My mother, who was an abnormal psychology major, still thinks transgender people are a touch mentally ill.

Yeah, that is why having everyone put their pronouns on their name badges is part of making it normal, and why bigoted people will point and laugh at them (go back and read what OP posted)--because they are never comfortable accepting anyone not in the majority/dominant group and some hope that if they bully people who practice inclusion, they can make it go away.

You can call it "conservative values" or "traditional values" or whatever you want, but the literal definition of bigotry is "obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction; in particular, prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group." And a lot of people, when they realize that their resistance to these changes derives from bigotry, will actually change their minds.

This is the same narrow point of view probably shared by this medical student. Assuming everyone is bigoted for holding a different point of view. She was so intolerant and hateful she took pleasure in the fact that her patient was stuck twice. It probably never occurred to her that maybe the patient didn’t know anything about displaying pronouns and his comment was out of confusion because clearly she’s a woman.

Please, most people can tell the difference between confusion and mocking.

And what exactly is the different point of view here? Showing your pronouns means "I want to contribute to an inclusive environment" or "I want to help people in the non-dominant group feel welcome." Seems like the opposite of that is "I do not want to contribute to an inclusive environment" or "I don't care about making people in the non-dominant group feel welcome." That's not a difference of opinion like some people like chocolate and some like vanilla.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest has publicly stated that the student is “no longer involved in patient care activities “ so they clearly think it was wrong behavior as well.

So hope this is true. She really should be kicked out of the program and not allowed to graduate.

CaNcEl cULtuRe

More like "actions have consequences" culture.

Seems like overkill to destroy her career over a dumb tweet.

Buy the ticket, take the ride

Exactly. There are some lines you don’t cross as a medical doctor. Hope it was worth risking her future for some woke points on social media. Too bad for her most people who saw her tweet thought her actions were disgusting and sick.

[Anonymous]

The patient sounds like a piece of work but I have no pity for this resident. She either doesn't understand the Hippocratic oath and hurt him on purpose in revenge, or she doesn't have the judgment to realize that's what the tweet she wrote sounds like when she framed the encounter for Social Media Points.

I'm pro-pronoun pins and also pro-professionalism. If you don't realize when you go into medicine that you'll be dealing with jackasses and worse on a daily basis, you didn't think this through. You still have to be the grownup in the room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel a little sorry for her tbh. What she did was wrong, but hopefully she can learn from this.

She deliberately hurt a patient and she should be expelled and never be allowed to work in any field of medicine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel a little sorry for her tbh. What she did was wrong, but hopefully she can learn from this.

She deliberately hurt a patient and she should be expelled and never be allowed to work in any field of medicine.

First, do no harm.

It sounds like this medical student is allowing her personal bias to influence her treatment of patients. That's not only wrong, it's dangerous. Does anyone really want to be walking on eggshells around this future physician, hoping not to set them off for any number of reasons?

This medical student needs to have a psychological assessment, because this was a very serious incident. It's not funny that she stuck her patient twice, on purpose. Her cavalier attitude is not funny either. It's dangerous. Be honest - would ANY of you want to have this person as your physician?