I am beyond horrified with this doctor. She really represents a lot of what’s wrong with healthcare these days. She prides herself on finding “malinge I am beyond horrified with this doctor. She really represents a lot of what’s wrong with healthcare these days. She prides herself on finding “malingerers”, which considering her job and lack of beds, I understand is necessary, but she’s incredibly rude about it and thinks it makes her look ‘cool’ and ‘tough’. She’s overly concerned with looking cool and like one of the boys when the cops and EMTS are around, to the point of doing an anal cavity search for a razorblade without any lube - something I’m sure is incredibly painful for the patient.
She also drops mentions here and there of other… hmmmm. Unethical things. Towards the end, she lies to a patient about what drug they’re getting just to shut him up. She ‘uses her wiles’ (ie, her sexuality/flirting) while talking with patients which is incredibly uncomfortable to read about.
Speaking of using her wiles, she talks continually about how she flirts EXCESSIVELY with other doctors and nurses even though she’s married and has a kid. Like, I understand that getting married doesn’t turn off your eyeballs and joking around but she’s definitely not joking around.
What made me incredibly pissed was towards the end, a transgender woman was brought in by the cops and she made a point of saying something along the lines of how you should use their preferred pronouns to make it seem like you’re on their side, and then a) used male pronouns off and on throughout the story and b) after sedating the patient she went back to the nurses station and called her a “shemale”. I almost threw up in my mouth what the fuck.
Throughout, she’s in therapy to try to make herself a better person and doctor and she does, in fact, become slightly better as far as I can tell, but that’s really not saying much. She’s still abrasive, combative, and frankly not someone I would trust with my dog, let alone with a person in dire circumstances like when they go to Bellevue psych ward.
She’s also an incredibly shitty friend. Her mentor had cancer and she backs away and never visits her in the hospital. A friend at the hospital lost their child, and she looked away and pretended she didn’t see him.
Overall, this book just seemed like a list of Dr Holland’s unethical practices at Bellevue and was a really uncomfortable read. If I could report her to the medical board I would. I sincerely hope she’s no longer practicing medicine. ...more
This was… not at all as advertised. It was about 60-65% transcript from the Nuremberg trials and then the rest was the authors feelings about being a This was… not at all as advertised. It was about 60-65% transcript from the Nuremberg trials and then the rest was the authors feelings about being a court reporter and then how she felt encountering Holocaust deniers (whom she did not engage). It was interesting but I was expecting more of a narrative non-fiction. ...more
I think this is a VERY important book for everyone, but especially for people who don’t want to be complicit in a system of child and slave labor. KarI think this is a VERY important book for everyone, but especially for people who don’t want to be complicit in a system of child and slave labor. Kara doesn’t necessarily offer any solutions except for more oversight & a somewhat naive “remove the unnecessary levels” (negotioners? and depots) and sell directly to the formal supply chain. (What I don’t think Kara is considering here is that the lowest level of the supply chain will just increase their profits and buy the product at the same price that the negotioners(?) were paying the miners for the cobalt)
However this is not exactly a simple problem and I don’t think this is something a single person could solve, this is going to be something many people will need to come together to solve.
Side note: calling them artisanal miners drove me INSANE. I know that it’s a legitimate thing and a legitimate term but knowing what artisanal means in general and pairing it with the Congolese barely making ends meet just. Wouldn’t come together in my mind....more
I thought it was a cute little story but then I came here and saw all the POC’s (well-deserved) anger over everything that just flew right over my heaI thought it was a cute little story but then I came here and saw all the POC’s (well-deserved) anger over everything that just flew right over my head. Guess I have some more learning to do. ...more
This was so terrible tbh I forced myself through basically the whole thing. It was incredibly uncomfortable reading Roz deliberately triggering Wes inThis was so terrible tbh I forced myself through basically the whole thing. It was incredibly uncomfortable reading Roz deliberately triggering Wes into a meltdown for funsies, and then when they all got jobs it really turned up the ridiculous factor. She was picked for President because she figured out how to include Wes in tag? Give me a break. Kids everywhere figure out how to be inclusive. ...more
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