Re: In Reversal, Student Is Given Extra Exam Time to Pump Breast Milk

From: Ina May Gaskin (midwifeim@earthlink.net)
Thu Sep 27 14:18:23 2007

I can understand the ambivalence, but maybe the judge considered the fact that men don't have to contend with the feeling of having boobs filling with milk continuously over a several-hour period while trying to answer the questions, knowing how quickly this can lead to 1) reduced milk supply and 2) mastitis, which can get women quite sick very fast.

It seems to me that having breastfeeding knowledge gained as a mother is a good thing for this doctor-in-training. She'll be less likely to try to separate the mother and baby immediately after birth just because that was the routine learned in medical school.

Ina May

On 27 Sep 2007, at 11:54, AllanHo@aol.com wrote:

> I feel ambivalent about her situation because I had a handicap
> myself when I had to take all those exam. I didn't have a medical
> diagnosis, but I was a very slow reader. I never asked for any
> special accommodations.
>
> I never finished answering all the questions in any of the
> standardized tests (SAT, MCAT, USMLE & ABOG) except for the math
> part of SAT. I scored in the 99 percentile in the math SAT. I
> only did well with everything else. I always wondered how I would
> have scored if I actually had enough time to answer all the
> questions on the tests.
>
> I didn't get the extra time because I didn't ask for it. On the
> other hand, I passed all my exams, so I didn't care. But this Ms
> Currier is on the cusp of passing. Who knows what's on her mind?
> The moral of this story: You don't get what you want unless you ask
> for it.
>
> Allan
> Pennsylvania
>

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