Posted on 08/16/2023 4:16:26 AM PDT by karpov
If the name Kychelle Del Rosario rings a bell, congratulations on a truly excellent memory for egregious academic-medical wokeness. For the rest of us, a refresher course may be in order.
On March 29, 2022, Del Rosario, a fourth-year medical student at Wake Forest, tweeted about her interaction with a patient during what should have been a routine blood draw. According to the med student’s own account, the patient in question noticed Del Rosario’s “She/Her” pronoun pin, laughed, and expressed consternation that any such identifier should be necessary. In response, Del Rosario intentionally “missed [the patient’s] vein so he had to get stuck twice.”
A fitting punishment for thoughtcrime? Some might say so. Nevertheless, the tweet went viral, Republicans “pounced,” and Del Rosario found herself at the center of an intense (if transitory) national conversation.
Though Wake Forest attempted to smooth things over with a statement two days later, the outrage of conservatives, amateur ethicists, and fellow med students remained undampened. By mid-April, the medical school’s promise of a “leave of absence” for Del Rosario had hardened into an “extended leave.”
Was Wake Forest’s own Nurse Ratched—sorry, Med Student Ratched—eventually allowed to return? The Martin Center recently attempted to find out.
To begin with, we contacted the medical school’s officer for local and regional media relations. Next, we reached out to Del Rosario herself via a third party who agreed to pass along our interview request. Unsurprisingly, both of these avenues were dead ends, as the Martin Center received not so much as an unkind word in reply.
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What other famous organization has a code of silence?
The Clinton Foundation? The Democratic National Committee? The Lincoln Project?
Republicans pounced So only Republicans think it’s wrong for a nurse to punish a patient for a perceived political slight.
my neighbors kid is a nurse and she flat out said annoying patients get sticks that hurt. Like it was not a thing, everybody does it.
There might be some truth to that, at least in the jokey, we wish we could, we all feel that, sort of way. A similar statement frequently uttered by housestaff (intern and resident doctors in training at hospitals and clinics) goes "How do you get rid of a 'difficult' patient? Answer: plan or perform a PP (painful procedure)."
well i have zero patience for whiny people ( I am not in healthcare) so i get it.
I know when my MIL was hospitalized for any length of time, i made my husband bring the floor nurses candy.
Really, there’s not enough candy, but it’s the thought that counted.
After Covid, it should be obvious the medical industry is largely populated by villains.
They will kill millions for politics, for a Ferrari payment, for a few dollars, for convenience.
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