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1. Once AO3 comes back up, go read the amazing story
corvidology wrote me for Christmas:
Never Get Drunk with a Baltian Trader
Star Trek AOS
Kirk & Bones & Spock gen
Hijinks and shenanigans
2. Turns out I'm more fucked up about my parents yelling us at us that we're all going to hell and that's my fault specifically for damning my children than I thought. When I first got back from Christmas, I was just so relieved to be here, and I felt very even-keeled. Now I wonder if I just felt numb for awhile because I am currently struggling with figuring out how I'm going to interact with them in the future and going over all the old existential questions their upbringing gave me and reading a truly unhealthy amount of Stranger Things fanfic in a way that is indicative I'm trying to bury/ignore my feelings. :(
3. Today I participated in the first day of a Symposium about Death and Dying with the junior and senior Respiratory Therapy cohort. Later in the semester I'll lead a writing workshop with these students that I've designed in collaboration with the RT faculty. It's an incredibly cool and necessary project because coping with death is almost always left out of the curriculum in other programs (discussing it isn't even an accreditation criterion OMG!), but it is so so heavy. I am sad and overwhelmed at listening to my colleagues talk about their experiences with losing patients over the course of their careers, so impressed with their courage, and grateful that we have people who are willing to do their jobs.
4. Hi hi!
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Never Get Drunk with a Baltian Trader
Star Trek AOS
Kirk & Bones & Spock gen
Hijinks and shenanigans
2. Turns out I'm more fucked up about my parents yelling us at us that we're all going to hell and that's my fault specifically for damning my children than I thought. When I first got back from Christmas, I was just so relieved to be here, and I felt very even-keeled. Now I wonder if I just felt numb for awhile because I am currently struggling with figuring out how I'm going to interact with them in the future and going over all the old existential questions their upbringing gave me and reading a truly unhealthy amount of Stranger Things fanfic in a way that is indicative I'm trying to bury/ignore my feelings. :(
3. Today I participated in the first day of a Symposium about Death and Dying with the junior and senior Respiratory Therapy cohort. Later in the semester I'll lead a writing workshop with these students that I've designed in collaboration with the RT faculty. It's an incredibly cool and necessary project because coping with death is almost always left out of the curriculum in other programs (discussing it isn't even an accreditation criterion OMG!), but it is so so heavy. I am sad and overwhelmed at listening to my colleagues talk about their experiences with losing patients over the course of their careers, so impressed with their courage, and grateful that we have people who are willing to do their jobs.
4. Hi hi!
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And I just watched the first two eps of The Pitt (the new HBO ER show with Noah Wyle) and it really hits the stress doctors (esp ER doctors are under stress and touches a little bit on the PTSD of Covid). So I was sitting here thinking about how hard it must be to deal with patients dying and seeing their family suffering and...then I read your post. What an amazing collab! Our department has been teaching classes for/with/in the med school, mostly regarding ethics, and it seems to be really well received by the students, bc you're so right that they get way too little of the...other stuff...
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I don't know how to deal with it and I've been living with it for the last 25 years.
The mental health toll on health care practitioners is so high. I could never do what they do, never. It makes no sense to me why this topic isn't a mandated topic in the curriculum. It's just setting them up for bad outcomes. Your ethics classes sound really cool and very necessary as well.