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Hi1 I'm orginially from Bermuda so that makes me a British woman of color now marired to a fellow from Portsmouth, VA. We live in Chesapeake, VA. I have applied to med school for the fall but havent' heard anything favorable yet. I might not get in. I hate my job so much that if i don't get in i might just quit and become a medical transcritptionist until my chidlren are older. That would be okay, i guess. Well, thta's my shout out! sorry for the sob story!
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Posts: 483 | From: Med school Mayhem | Registered: Nov 2002
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Hi Sethina I am a woman of color. I am black. My children happen to be biracial. My husband is from Germany/Irish-Welsh descent. We are like the United Nations in my family. Posts: 312 | From: illinois | Registered: Nov 2002
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I am a not a woman "of color" but have had interesting thoughts about it in the last few weeks. I work in the South and find the views down here really amazing. For instance, I am leaving this practice soon and am turning over many of my patients to an internist who is from India. Yesterday one of my patients looked at me in dismay and asked "Don't you have anyone who is American?"
I even have several patients who openly say they will not see a "forner." They ask if they will be able to "understand" him. I actually have to explain that he was trained in the US and very qualified for the job. But the most amazing thing is when I tell them I sure am glad they didn't make the same decisions about me being their doctor since my last name is Indian too (my husband is Indian). Only a few manage to look ashamed.
I guess I really understand to some degree the amorphous advantages (at least in the South) that your name and skin color may (or may not) give you.
Amazing.
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Very interesting... the reason I ask is because I want to hear more about being a minority AND WOMAN in medicine. At one of my jobs I had an Hawaiian client who spoke in pidgin, he got SOOOOO angry with me because he couldn't understand me. He asked me to SPEEAAKKK ENGLISH so I can understand. Well I was speaking Queen's english so to speak. He just assumed because of the color of my skin that I was talking 'foren'.
Grrgghhh...
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Sethina, One interesting story I have regarding that involves some complaining I was doing about patients in the hospital thinking I was their nurse instead of their doctor, simply because I'm female. A classmate of mine (who is black) said it was worse for her. When she went into the patients' room they often handed her their food tray. . .
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I'm biracial, African-American and Italian-American, to be specific!
Funny thing is, everyone in Texas thinks I'm Hispanic! (Texans assume wavy dark hair and medium complexion = Mexican)
I hope that my patients will find it easier to relate to me since everyone seems to see their own ethnicity in my face. (I've been asked if I was part Indian, aboriginal, Islander, etc! )
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It's not so different in other professions. I'm an architect and people always think i'm an administrative assistant or receptionist. but people at work even though when they hear dhtta i was studying for something medical that it was to be a nurse. talk about a white male dominated field!
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I thank God for diversity every day! what a boring world it would be if everyone looked/acted the same, bah. I am a mutt myself my mother is full blooded Spanish and my father is Mexican-American and me, well a quarter of this and that, he he.
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I'm an African-American woman who is pre-med. I will be entering medical schools this fall. This past winter break, I volunteered at a hospital. I told some of the people that I was going to medical school and a lot of them said "so you are gonna be a nurse??" Why don't they get that if I was going to be a nurse, I wouldn't be going to med school!??!
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Funny how we have such similar experiences. No matter how many times I tell the folks I volunteer with at the hospital that I'm premed, they still think I'm a nursing student! Oh well, maybe that's why they're nice to me. (premeds aren't well liked by nursing staff, it seems) Theresa
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I hate my job so much that if i don't get in i might just quit and become a medical transcritptionist until my chidlren are older. That would be okay, i guess. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Why don't they get that if I was going to be a nurse, I wouldn't be going to med school!??!
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