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I'm Jewish. Christian kids were saying shit like "get in the oven" to me and remarking on how ugly my "Jew nose" was by the time I was in second grade. By about 5th grade it progressed to "Hitler was right" and actual threats to "exterminate" me or bomb my house to "cleanse" the Jews… Read More

When I was in medical school, I was in the OR with all female surgeons. We chatted during any down-time and the surgeons all started talking about what they had to do when they got home (from their 12+ hour day of performing surgery). Oh, gotta make dinner, gotta clean the house,… Read More

I meant being "confused" about the existence of women doctors (like "oh so sorry, I'm just so used to women being nurses and secretaries!" or "you can't blame him, he's just old fashioned/from a different time") which I have legit heard as an explanation/excuse before, but either… Read More

By the way: this was last year. As in 2021. I'm in my early thirties.

I'm a doctor, and also a woman (shocking!). I briefly worked at an outpatient clinic where the other physicians were men. EVERY DAY I would receive numerous emails and instant messages from staff asking me questions about the other physicians' schedules and demanding that I call THEIR… Read More

The abuse is way worse since the start of the pandemic, in my experience, since people with political agendas made healthcare into a battleground. I've had people spit on me for daring to wear a mask into their room, accuse me of being "a liberal puppet" (which quickly escalates to… Read More

Hitler being a Christian was, in fact, a central factor to his motivation for. You know. Genocide. Christianity has been very instrumental for a whole lot of violence. The people who most loudly proclaim themselves to be Christians are often the ones who are about to do something… Read More

Ugh, can we stop with the zodiac and star chart garbage? It's one thing if it's just for fun and everyone is aware of that, but I've seen more and more people ACTUALLY making life decisions based on it. Being queer should not be associated with ridiculous pseudoscience.

As a doctor, fighting with insurance companies about garbage like this is the WORST part. You spend hours waiting on the phone (hours that you don't have and aren't being compensated for, while your other patients end up waiting because the company scheduled a time and them left you… Read More

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