Comments on: Breast feeding and taking the boards http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-boards.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-boards.html/comment-page-1#comment-77071 Anonymous Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:57:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-the-boards.html#comment-77071 It seems she has developed a habit for special accommodations. Being given extra test time already for adult attention defecit disorder--a dubious reason to get more time than prescribed for the test, she got to Harvard, after all--what else could she get extra time for?<br/><br/>She should suck it up and learn to work without expecting every inconvenience to be accommodated.<br/><br/>I would hate to have to rotate with this student, she seems like a whining no-load. What she can't win by power of reasonable persuasion she tries to get by public sympathy in the media. It seems she has developed a habit for special accommodations. Being given extra test time already for adult attention defecit disorder–a dubious reason to get more time than prescribed for the test, she got to Harvard, after all–what else could she get extra time for?

She should suck it up and learn to work without expecting every inconvenience to be accommodated.

I would hate to have to rotate with this student, she seems like a whining no-load. What she can’t win by power of reasonable persuasion she tries to get by public sympathy in the media.

]]> By: Evil HR Lady http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-boards.html/comment-page-1#comment-77065 Evil HR Lady Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:46:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-the-boards.html#comment-77065 Speaking as someone who has breastfed a baby, I think she's whining unnecessarily. Yes, it's not an idea situation, but it's two days. You feed the baby right before you go in. Then she's got 45 minutes worth of breaks--presumably two or three breaks. <br/><br/>If there are two breaks then she pumps at 3 hours in and again at 3 hours later and then can feed the baby again when she's done.<br/><br/>If there breaks are broken into 3 sections then she can pump almost every two hours.<br/><br/>She's not going to get mastitis. Wear some breast pads. It's two days. If it were the rest of her life, then yes, I could see doing some accommodating, but it's two days! Speaking as someone who has breastfed a baby, I think she’s whining unnecessarily. Yes, it’s not an idea situation, but it’s two days. You feed the baby right before you go in. Then she’s got 45 minutes worth of breaks–presumably two or three breaks.

If there are two breaks then she pumps at 3 hours in and again at 3 hours later and then can feed the baby again when she’s done.

If there breaks are broken into 3 sections then she can pump almost every two hours.

She’s not going to get mastitis. Wear some breast pads. It’s two days. If it were the rest of her life, then yes, I could see doing some accommodating, but it’s two days!

]]> By: Michael Rack, MD http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-boards.html/comment-page-1#comment-77049 Michael Rack, MD Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:57:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-the-boards.html#comment-77049 "examinees could use their break time outside the testing room for breast pumping, and if they finished sections of the test early, they could gain extra time for break."<br/>"Currier, 33, said she is receiving some test accommodation. She has serious dyslexia and attention problems -- she was featured in a Globe column last year about adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- and is thus given twice the usual time to complete the test: two nine-hour days instead of one."<br/><br/>She's already getting an extra day of testing. With that extra time, you'd think she would be able to finish some of the sections early and use that time for breast feeding. How much extra accomadation does she want? “examinees could use their break time outside the testing room for breast pumping, and if they finished sections of the test early, they could gain extra time for break.”
“Currier, 33, said she is receiving some test accommodation. She has serious dyslexia and attention problems — she was featured in a Globe column last year about adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — and is thus given twice the usual time to complete the test: two nine-hour days instead of one.”

She’s already getting an extra day of testing. With that extra time, you’d think she would be able to finish some of the sections early and use that time for breast feeding. How much extra accomadation does she want?

]]> By: Breeder http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-boards.html/comment-page-1#comment-77045 Breeder Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-the-boards.html#comment-77045 I wan't trying to be repulsive at my job some 16 years ago, when my need to pump was poorly accomodated. Yet I did indeed leak through my pads and onto the computer.<br/><br/>This is the reality of a lactating woman. If my kid even crossed my mind my milk would let down. My breasts became huge, stiff and swollen. <br/><br/>My milk supply dried up prematurely, and I leaked though my clothes constantly, and experienced a very distracting level of genuine physical discomfort.<br/><br/>A break to express milk should be granted any lactating woman. It's not a bottle, folks, and having enough milk for the present use of a baby isn't the whole of the issue. As a net good to everyone, breast feeding should be accomodated. <br/><br/>What's the subtext here? Why won't they accomodate her? Is it fear she will use the breaks to cheat? I wan’t trying to be repulsive at my job some 16 years ago, when my need to pump was poorly accomodated. Yet I did indeed leak through my pads and onto the computer.

This is the reality of a lactating woman. If my kid even crossed my mind my milk would let down. My breasts became huge, stiff and swollen.

My milk supply dried up prematurely, and I leaked though my clothes constantly, and experienced a very distracting level of genuine physical discomfort.

A break to express milk should be granted any lactating woman. It’s not a bottle, folks, and having enough milk for the present use of a baby isn’t the whole of the issue. As a net good to everyone, breast feeding should be accomodated.

What’s the subtext here? Why won’t they accomodate her? Is it fear she will use the breaks to cheat?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-boards.html/comment-page-1#comment-77044 Anonymous Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:34:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-the-boards.html#comment-77044 ""What am I going to do, express milk all over your computer?" she asked a board official."<br/><br/>There is a surefire way to win your argument, be as repulsive as you can. “”What am I going to do, express milk all over your computer?” she asked a board official.”

There is a surefire way to win your argument, be as repulsive as you can.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-boards.html/comment-page-1#comment-77041 Anonymous Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:56:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/breast-feeding-and-taking-the-boards.html#comment-77041 Oh well, . . . next customer. Oh well, . . . next customer.

]]>