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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poor kid.

Physician here-she’s an adult and her actions are far, far over the line of appropriate (and that’s assuming the double stick was because of a mistake.) The practice of medicine has many bright lines that are absolutely not to be crossed and it’s concerning to have such an avoidable error of judgement as a student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now her full name, picture and all her credentials are online. Nobody will want to tough her with a 10 foot pole. I’m starting to feel really bad for her.

You should be worried about her judgment. She clearly has bad judgment if she thinks it’s cool to not only do such a thing but then post about it online.

Not everyone should be a doctor.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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?

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.

[Anonymous]

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?

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.

I taught preschool for a few years. I introduced myself to my students and parents while wearing a name tag that clearly identified my gender (it said "Ms. Larla"). My own preschool teachers also asked to be addressed as "Miss".

If my 3 year old students can handle being told someone's gender, I think most adults should be mature enough to manage it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

I taught preschool for a few years. I introduced myself to my students and parents while wearing a name tag that clearly identified my gender (it said "Ms. Larla"). My own preschool teachers also asked to be addressed as "Miss".

If my 3 year old students can handle being told someone's gender, I think most adults should be mature enough to manage it.

I can't remember when I needed to know a doctor's gender. Considering they are always referred to as doctor.

Also weird you're bringing children into this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

I taught preschool for a few years. I introduced myself to my students and parents while wearing a name tag that clearly identified my gender (it said "Ms. Larla"). My own preschool teachers also asked to be addressed as "Miss".

If my 3 year old students can handle being told someone's gender, I think most adults should be mature enough to manage it.

I can't remember when I needed to know a doctor's gender. Considering they are always referred to as doctor.

Also weird you're bringing children into this.

There are times when I am talking to a female doctor and will start with "You know when ..." and if they are NOT female then no, they WON'T know when ... because it's never happened in their body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

I taught preschool for a few years. I introduced myself to my students and parents while wearing a name tag that clearly identified my gender (it said "Ms. Larla"). My own preschool teachers also asked to be addressed as "Miss".

If my 3 year old students can handle being told someone's gender, I think most adults should be mature enough to manage it.

I can't remember when I needed to know a doctor's gender. Considering they are always referred to as doctor.

Also weird you're bringing children into this.

Really? I have referred to my doctors with pronouns many times.

Someone says "I understand you see Dr. Frankenstein. Were you happy?" and I say "Well, some very strange noises came out of HIS laboratory, so I decided to go elsewhere for the next visit. Now I see Dr. Curie. SHE's fantastic!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

I taught preschool for a few years. I introduced myself to my students and parents while wearing a name tag that clearly identified my gender (it said "Ms. Larla"). My own preschool teachers also asked to be addressed as "Miss".

If my 3 year old students can handle being told someone's gender, I think most adults should be mature enough to manage it.

Ms. and Miss are not genders. Not sure what your point is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

I taught preschool for a few years. I introduced myself to my students and parents while wearing a name tag that clearly identified my gender (it said "Ms. Larla"). My own preschool teachers also asked to be addressed as "Miss".

If my 3 year old students can handle being told someone's gender, I think most adults should be mature enough to manage it.

Ms. and Miss are not genders. Not sure what your point is.

She and her aren't genders either. They are all words that we use, when referring to someone, that signify that person's gender.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poor kid.

Physician here-she’s an adult and her actions are far, far over the line of appropriate (and that’s assuming the double stick was because of a mistake.) The practice of medicine has many bright lines that are absolutely not to be crossed and it’s concerning to have such an avoidable error of judgement as a student.

Very well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

I taught preschool for a few years. I introduced myself to my students and parents while wearing a name tag that clearly identified my gender (it said "Ms. Larla"). My own preschool teachers also asked to be addressed as "Miss".

If my 3 year old students can handle being told someone's gender, I think most adults should be mature enough to manage it.

Interesting take however your preschoolers called you miss or misses based on your title and gender that was the title given to you based on your gender based on English language at the time however the title of doctor in English is not gender-based so therefore the inclusion of gender doesn't really make much sense to me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.