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

[Anonymous]

Why the hell was she even wearing the pin? So unprofessional.

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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?

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What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

[Anonymous]

Compared to practicing nurses who raged against COVID vaccines, this is nothing though.

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Anonymous wrote:From her tweet it sounds like she purposely missed the patient's vein so they had to be stuck twice simply because the patient didn't align with her personal views. That is disgusting and I hope she is reprimanded. She is openly admitting to medical malpractice. Medical professionals encounter a variety of patients from different backgrounds with different beliefs but they have an obligation to do no harm and provide the same standard of care. She clearly posted this on Twitter so she could virtue signal and get praised but it had the opposite effect.

That’s pretty obvious to me too. she was very wrong and should be disciplined. The patient was also a complete ass. However, two wrongs do not make a right.

And Twitter says she is being disciplined by the school.

Disciplinee for what? No one believes she intentionally did anything.

Presumably for posting about it and making light of her error in missing the vein?

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Anonymous wrote:Idk if I trust a Fox journalist but here is a link to a statement that says the student been placed on leave:

It was not intentional.

She didn’t even do the second stick.

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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?

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What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

The pins may be helpful for patients to communicate with care providers. And also to make patients feel comfortable sharing their own pronouns.

What’s wrong with them? Do they trigger you?

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Anonymous wrote:There is a BIG difference between intentional malice vs being stupid. She was being stupid for sure but her stupidity doesn't prove she intentially harmed her patient

Not much better. I don’t want a stupid doctor.

Well, guess what. You probably have one or more already. You just don't know it.

You know what they call doctors who got Cs and Ds in medical school?

They call them "Doctor."

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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?

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What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10670003/North-Carolina-med-student-brags-deliberately-injuring-patient-mocked-pronoun-pin.html#article-10670003


"I had a patient I was doing a blood draw on see my pronoun pin and loudly laugh to the staff 'She/Her? Well of course it is! What other pronouns even are there? It?'" K. Del, or Kychelle Del Rosario, a fourth-year medical student at Wake Forest School of Medicine, tweeted.

Med students don't do blood draws. It's a bad, tacky joke.

Med students do.

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

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Anonymous wrote:Idk if I trust a Fox journalist but here is a link to a statement that says the student been placed on leave:

It was not intentional.

She didn’t even do the second stick.

I think it is up for debate whether the first stick that didn’t work was an intentional mis-stick. But obviously she will claim it wasn’t as she is looking at the end of her time in medical school if she intentionally harmed a patient.

Honestly I’m not sure practically speaking if she should continue at all. She has appalling judgment. The Tweet will never go away. She needs to fully change her name if she wants to get matched in residency.

I agree with her that pronoun badges are inclusive (as in, I am probably in her side for trans issues) but I wouldn’t want her anywhere near my medical care. The dedication to pronoun badges over competent patient care shows that she’s not able to give good care. Of course, there is a long history of doctors prioritizing their own beliefs over patient care (trans people themselves are victims of this) but we don’t have to make the problem worse when we have hard evidence of a probable bad doctor. I think the ideal outcome here is that she realizes on her own that she isn’t cut out for medicine.

[Anonymous]

I guess that’s what happens when you tweet stupid 🤧

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Anonymous wrote:I guess that’s what happens when you tweet stupid 🤧

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

Because there is nothing normal about having to state one's "preferred pronouns."