tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582815928673200669.post8432974187393422816..comments2023-04-04T06:59:59.644-07:00Comments on Traversing the Liminal: Medicine, Motherhood and Mother TeresaGF Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151041405670719917noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582815928673200669.post-26031090039436878112007-07-09T22:52:00.000-07:002007-07-09T22:52:00.000-07:00All of what you said above is why I had to get out...All of what you said above is why I had to get out of the med school track and find my own path. I lost my own mother for much of my youth to workaholism and depression and if there was anything I was sure of (even at the ripe age of 21), it was I didn't want to inflict that sort of motherhood on any potential offspring of my own. <BR/>I hate the system, and reject the notion of medicine as exclusively scientific or intellectual in opposition to social and holistic. But sadly there is no way to change it soon enough for us to be the great doctors you know that we'd be. Clearly there are women who do both - I know two women doctors who have children and seem to manage it well - so we know that it is possible, but part of my journey through my 20's was admitting that I didn't think I had the type of intellect and stamina that the current system would demand of me in order to balance myself as a woman, potential mother and mate, and the demands of medical practice. It's my patients' loss I guess.<BR/><BR/>I find my current pursuit of public health very healing in a way - it allows me to look at health and medicine in a way that better suits my compassionate, advocate, champion of social justice self, while still applying the intelligence I do have to make it all effective (or at least try). <BR/><BR/>In summary - we all have our own path to throw off the shackles of our parents' (and our own!) expectations and find our way through the obstacles... <BR/>...but I still think you should apply to my program. Maybe you could do a joint masters' in public health and gerontology?Jocelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04251877264034401691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582815928673200669.post-12255914481569606842007-07-07T14:51:00.000-07:002007-07-07T14:51:00.000-07:00"(3 of the doctors in our clinic don’t know how to..."(3 of the doctors in our clinic don’t know how to hold a baby properly…) "<BR/><BR/>hahahah! but you can't be type A without it now, can youstitchpixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04039603225519380140noreply@blogger.com