Something like this makes women look bad. Women have been having babies since the beginning of time. There will always be women having babies all the time; should they all get special treatment? Give the professional world another reason to think women are weak and incapable of doing their jobs. None of us will be employed if the men hiring think we will be asking for special treatment later on if we decide to have a child.

Bottom line-I’ve known where babies come from since I was 7. I know that pregnancy may bring complications. So does a female medical student. Her body, her choice now she has to deal with being a mother the best way she can. The rest of us should not have to deal with it.

I’m in my office taking a break from charting. I have ADHD and I need a break more often than most. I still do the work – but I may need a bit more time with the paperwork and more frequent breaks. I make up for this by working later and harder than most. That’s how I finished med school, got inducted into AOA, and finished in the top of my residency. It may take me longer, but I just stay longer to do it.

However, I will be the first to admit: while I am a competent doctor, I suck at charting. It will never be easy for me. It will always take me extra time – hence the reason I am still in my office at 8pm. Anything written like this is hard for me. But I can do it given the time. If I choose to use my free time to do so, that’s my option.

This young woman is no different. It really doesn’t matter how long it takes her to do the work, as long as she can do it and is willing to put that time in to do it. Its not as if having an extra hour on a test will somehow make the mechanism of action of cephalosporins or the differential diagnosis of dyspnea more clear. If you don’t know the information, you will fail the test. If you have a learning disability like dyslexia that makes you take twice the time to read however, that extra time may mean that you are able to show the knowledge that you have.

And personally I’d rather have a dyslexic physician than a malignantly entitled, self-important, cowardly troll who feels that no one with a disability merits a fair chance to succeed professionally.

Nick Gorton

And I would support the same policy for any lactating man — it’s not a sex discrimination thing either way. And if someone on dialysis wanted to take the exam, I don’t think their sex should matter to that decision either.

“milking it”

HAHAHAHAHA!!! Pun of the year!

Yep, flunked it in April before the kid. USMLE part 2 is a pretty simple exam, and any student who was even half awake during their clinical years who can remember to bring a #2 pencil (metaphorically speaking, as it’s all computer based now) can pass.