KevinMD September 10, 2024
About midway through my pediatric residency program at a well-known children’s hospital on the East Coast in the mid-1990s, I found out what was wrong with me.
I told the chief of the pediatric emergency department, a Jewish woman, that I had finally learned the name of a device after I had patients use it many times. I knew what it was for, but I hadn’t learned its name. It was a peak flow meter. The name finally stuck in my head.
“That’s because you are subhuman,” she told me firmly. She was not joking. She really believed that.
During my time there, this attending physician humiliated one of her pediatric emergency fellows because he had dared to support a...
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