Friday, September 28, 2007

How do you spell Dr Boob?

There is a woman, a certain Harvard grad, Ms Currier, who is now being given extra time in the middle of her medical board exams to express breast milk. She sued because she couldn't get her time to pump and that is a violation of (naturally) her "rights". In the interest of explaining what a pain in the ass this woman must be, she ALSO has been extended extra time because she has "dyslexia" and "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder". So I am giving out her name in case you missed it. It is public knowledge and not slander- she wants it known. That would be Currier- Sophie Currier. She will be at the Mass General hospital as a resident (after taking 2 days to pass a 1 day exam- if she's lucky). If you should happen to check into that hospital, you might request a different doctor, depending on YOUR preferences. I would personally prefer NOT to have a doctor who received special treatment during a licensing exam, had dyslexia and/or ADHD, and who obviously can't figure her way out of a paper bag because she has a LITTLE baby that doesn't drink all that much and could express her milk easily in 20 minutes. If she can't, I can show her how. Having fed a baby that way in my life, I can tell you that it is no big damn deal to express. I didn't have an electric pump either. Just a little hand held jobber. Much faster.BIG deal. Oh, she was going to be in AGONY-oh, boo hoo. There have probably been hundreds of breast feeding mothers in this exam room before her. Those women acted like professionals. And of course, some lawyer took her case and the and judge overruled the medical board. Now she gets an extra DAY because of all of her issues. Doctors shouldn't be dyslexic. Period. There is a HUGE difference between Dilantin and Dilaudid. And things like 14 mgm and 41 mgm. Whatever her disability is, she chose the wrong profession. Of course, all that special treatment she has gotten because of her "disability" means that she has received an advantage over the people who don't have a disability. She should not have gone to medical school. If she can't read, can't pay attention, can't concentrate and can't go for 9 hours with only a short break, then she should have been counseled OUT of medicine. She has probably been a BURDEN for her classmates to lug through med school, and now she will be a BURDEN for her colleagues. This isn't about breast milk, this is about her sense of entitlement. Her sense of being allowed extra everything because she is "special". Really? Well, they say every med school class has someone who finished last in the class- and I guess there should be the same expression for the most self-entitled. Would you REALLY want a doctor to take care of you who claims so many mental disabilities that would deal with your safety? She can't claim to have all this wrong with her and then say it won't matter to the patient. I say- remember that name. Thank God it came up in the media. Because now you know- there is a dylexic, ADHD, gotta leave you bleeding on the floor because she has to pump or pee, doctor about to take her place in medicine.

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/blog/2007/09/judge_rules_aga.html for the initial ruling, which was reversed in the courts.