tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post8522082231985810611..comments2024-03-29T03:43:45.977-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: Two Women and What They DidDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-80392228748430541602013-07-18T19:22:56.844-04:002013-07-18T19:22:56.844-04:00Love this! How much could we all learn if we didn&...Love this! How much could we all learn if we didn't make assumptions about who is capable of teaching?Cynthia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-83642669281288764002013-07-12T11:38:40.655-04:002013-07-12T11:38:40.655-04:00What a beautiful piece, thank you. I hate the &quo...What a beautiful piece, thank you. I hate the "stand back and objectify" approach. I have a rare genetic syndrome that most doctor's have never heard of, let alone seen. They proceed to drag students in and talk about me as though I'm not there, as though I have nothing to add by telling them about my condition in my own words. It's amazing to me that they feel qualified to use me as a teaching aid when ten minutes before, they themselves had never heard of my condition. They read from textbooks that are so stark and inhuman, they teach about the condition, not the people that live it. I love it when those same students come to find me by themselves, without the older Consultants and their out of date approaches. They come to hear the human side of my disability. I'm a patient expert, I can use the correct terminology and teach them as any lecturer would...but I do it in a way that makes them see me as a person, not a syndrome. I show them that I'm happy, I'm silly, I can laugh at my problems...they see me, not a body with labels to inspect and recite. They remember me and therefore retain the knowledge I imparted far better than they do when it is presented as cold, hard medical abnormality. It reassures me that they'll actually remember me, recognise parts of me in someone else, diagnose them early and save them from the pain I've felt. When they have no emotional connection, they are less likely to remember what it was that was wrong about me, the visual signs, or how to diagnose it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-41326475962651783112013-07-12T09:06:30.221-04:002013-07-12T09:06:30.221-04:00This sure helps re-define the sense of "autho...This sure helps re-define the sense of "authority" and who is qualified to claim it!<br /><br />(Your anecdote about the film immediately conjured up the years I was an in- and out-patient of a "crippled children's hospital," having surgery for scoliosis. Xrays were OK, but I was 15, 16, 17 at the time and we were also requested to put on uncomfortable diaper sorts of things, and nothing else, and be photographed - for a record of our curves our files? Did I, embarrassed enough already as a "deformed" 16-year-old girl, end up in a textbook somewhere, with or without that black thing across my eyes? Dignity sure didn't figure in the equation, or consent or explanation or any of that)scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02181326820898061220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-21272085939560545952013-07-12T08:04:35.810-04:002013-07-12T08:04:35.810-04:00I too can see the folks standing in the back and w...I too can see the folks standing in the back and watching how it should have been done all along! Your words painted a very vivid picture to me this morning...thank you for sharing two memories, one old one new. Janenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-2121790217117986432013-07-12T05:11:44.240-04:002013-07-12T05:11:44.240-04:00wow. just, wow.
wow. just, wow.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com