Re: In Reversal, Student Is Given Extra Exam Time to Pump Breast Milk
From: R. Daniel Braun (rd.braun@gmail.com)
Fri Sep 28 06:39:47 2007
But, she was already getting twice as much time as everyone else because of
her ADHD.
Come on. There has to be a limit somewhere.
No I am not against breast feeding. I am very much for it.
Dan
On 9/27/07, Ina May Gaskin <midwifeim@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> 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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R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG(L) CMT
Professor Emeritus
Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Indiana U. School of Medicine
R. Daniel Braun
"Science without Religion is LAME; Religion without Science is BLIND"
Einstein 1941
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