Think back to the first time you and your friends tried mixing all the sodas in the pop fountain. You watched each different fizz cascade into the 64 oz. Big Gulp, mesmerized as the cola-colored puddle metamorphosed into a rust-colored, guaranteed gut-buster of a beverage. You thought to yourself, "Is this a good idea?"

And if you're anything like me, you said, "What the hell," and took a sip and even as you felt your Cheetoes and chocolate milk crawling back up your throat (with just a hint of Dr. Pepper), you swore to all your friends--you swore to God--that it was the "best thing ever made, try it, you gotta try it, just try it." And in the end, after fighting back your lunch, you decided it wasn't really that bad. And you took another sip.

That's what life is like in mredison's neighborhood. Welcome.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Dr. Jones gets Her Milk

The lady who sued for extra time to nurse her baby and pump milk during the medical boards received her extra time. The extra day with an extra 45-minute break wasn't enough, according to the appeals court. Comments welcomed.
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the jackal said...

The decision was made in order to put lactating females on the same footing as nonlacting females and males. No concern for lactating males, a la Cody Buohl in high school.

I guess the question is how far you go in providing an equal footing for physiological conditions. Some don't seem all that worrisome--extra time for a deaf person to get oral instructions written down, or for a one-armed man to type an exam, or whatever. But then, some seem crazy--should a person with ADD get extra time on medical boards so that he can take breaks every 15 minutes?

So what's the difference? You could say some condition won't affect how someone actually performs as a doctor; you might not want doctors with ADD, while deaf doctors might not be such a big deal. Lactating doctors wouldn't seem all that worrisome.

But the other argument against providing extra time for lactators, and the one that you implicitly raised in your previous post on the subject, is that she shouldn't really need that much extra time for expressing milk, especially since she's already getting the ADHD allotment (ridiculous, imo--but I'm not educator).

So should the Board be forced to make up rules about how much time all sorts of different conditions merit? Or can they just point to a list, say that this is what we're gonna do, and we ain't changing? And might it matter that there is some government action implicit in the board's activities, since the results of the test will determine (at least partially) whether you get to practice medicine in the state?

In typical law school form, I leave you only with questions.

September 27, 2007 at 8:23 AM

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