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I hope this is not true - med student in US deliberately misses vein after patient remarks on pronoun badge

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ButlerianJihad · 31/03/2022 11:01

www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-wake-medical-student-missed-vein-patient-stuck-twice-gender-pronoun-pin

Unsure if this is how to share links on MN.

From the text: "A fourth-year medical student at Wake Forest University in North Carolina bragged on Twitter about purposely missing a vein while drawing blood because a patient asked about her pronoun pin.

"I had a patient I was doing a blood draw on see my pronoun pin and loudly laugh to the staff 'She/Her? Well of course it is! What other pronouns even are there? It?'" K. Del, or Kychelle Del Rosario, a fourth-year medical student at Wake Forest School of Medicine, tweeted, according to The Post Millennial.

"I missed his vein so he had to get stuck twice," she said. Del Rosario has since deleted her account."

Whether this incident is true or not, and I hope it isn't, it does highlight a concern of the use of pronoun badges in health care. Many people are not familiar with these debates and the strength of feeling involved and so while many who know the consequences are successfully silenced, those naive to the ramifications may make comments which may be perceived as insensitive.

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tabbycatstripy · 31/03/2022 11:33

Nobody who takes pleasure in hurting a patient should be anywhere near medicine.

TheCurrywurstPrion · 31/03/2022 11:28

It doesn’t actually specify that missing the vein was deliberate. It could potentially be read as taking glee in having to stick twice in a disliked patient. Still awful, but not actually assault. I can imagine it might be embellished, to hide feelings of incompetence.

I found the general context interesting. There is obviously escalating dislike of having the whole pronoun agenda forced on us. It amazes me that those so intent on virtue signaling never stop to wonder quite why the push-back is growing so fast.

nauticant · 31/03/2022 11:27

Looking at the response of Wake Forest School of Medicine, this story, so far, would appear to be true:

twitter.com/gregg_re/status/1509309723652329480

What this thread needs is someone to come on and say that because Fox News has involved itself we all need to avert our gaze and forget what we've read.

tabbycatstripy · 31/03/2022 11:26

There should be no political statements in healthcare at all.

MorrisZapp · 31/03/2022 11:24

Doubt it ever happened but it illustrates the issue perfectly. Healthcare should be a politics free zone, at point of use anyway. That guy on 'this is going to hurt' probably didn't actually ruin a woman's tattoo because she was being racist, but she could rightfully sue him if he did.

It's universal and without judgement or it isn't.

Rightsraptor · 31/03/2022 11:20

It could easily be true but we'll probably never know for sure. If it is, I hope that medical student is disciplined. Don't know about the US but if she were in the UK she'd be expected to treat everyone with courtesy & respect and do her best for them, whoever they are.

Colm Whatshisname from Amnesty International Ireland wanted political representation withdrawn from GC women. Why not withdraw medical treatment too? Somehow mark our debit/credit cards, freeze our bank accounts so we can't buy food etc.

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