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azurelunatic) wrote2022-08-26 12:30 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2022-08-26 12:30 pm
Baby doctors & tomatoes
I'm able to have tomatoes, cautiously and selectively, now! Sweet cherry tomatoes are about it, salted. This is more than previous, and pleases me rather a lot. I have been having them with enough open face broiled grilled cheese that we ran out of cheddar yesterday, at least if we don't want to break into the strategic sharp reserve.
Yesterday and Tuesday was about four hours of Zoom, half of which was with med students. They need practice interacting with patients, and Belovedest's alma mater was recruiting people with specific categories of gender identity to play a particular Standard Patient. That was complicated and detailed and a good workout for my acting skills. I got to observe for one session, and got to act for the next one. My call center skills in controlling the conversation got taken out and dusted off too, and the students were properly concerned about the easter egg in my particular portrayal, as well as catching the thing they were meant to in the standard part of the standard case. (We were allowed to bring our own medical history. I chose to be 36 again, pre-yeeterus.)
Nobody in my session did any misgendering, but my bottom line advice for all the students in the plenary sessions was about being aware of interaction with other medical staff and the medical record, and that the time you really need to remember pronouns is talking to other staff about the patient. Which turned out to be relevant. Sadly.
It was really fun and I'm open to doing it again.
Yesterday and Tuesday was about four hours of Zoom, half of which was with med students. They need practice interacting with patients, and Belovedest's alma mater was recruiting people with specific categories of gender identity to play a particular Standard Patient. That was complicated and detailed and a good workout for my acting skills. I got to observe for one session, and got to act for the next one. My call center skills in controlling the conversation got taken out and dusted off too, and the students were properly concerned about the easter egg in my particular portrayal, as well as catching the thing they were meant to in the standard part of the standard case. (We were allowed to bring our own medical history. I chose to be 36 again, pre-yeeterus.)
Nobody in my session did any misgendering, but my bottom line advice for all the students in the plenary sessions was about being aware of interaction with other medical staff and the medical record, and that the time you really need to remember pronouns is talking to other staff about the patient. Which turned out to be relevant. Sadly.
It was really fun and I'm open to doing it again.
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Why are tomatoes 'off the table?' Or, rather, for whatever reason that you can't have them so much (except the little cherry ones, what about yellow ones? That's what I most want to know. I love the yellow ones. I feel like they are less acidic, .... but I have no actual idea. Anyhow. *yellow tomato love*
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There were some yellow ones in the batch of cherry tomatoes I got, and they definitely seemed the least acidic.