“See me for who I am”
Anonymous, The University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
“Great! The Nepalese interpreter has arrived!”
Jennifer Edgoose Executive Vice Chair I was born in our nation’s oldest birthing hospital in Providence, Rhode Island to Korean immigrants and did not have...
I really should have corrected them
Anonymous, Resident When we were working in the hospital one night and your name was mispronounced repeatedly and eventually got brushed off, I really should...
There she sat, days on end.
Adam Cordum, Resident There she sat, days on end. An older black woman full of a lifetime of stories, experiences, and moments of mistrust of...
What just happened was not okay.
Morgan White, Resident Whether it happens in a patient’s room or outside of it, it should be our responsibility as a department to call out/name...
Why won’t you get vaccinated?
Andre Biscaye, Resident It has been challenging trying to convince a lot of patients who express apprehension about the Covid vaccine to reconsider. When I...
Not the basis of every situation
Anonymous, The University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health I’m not the basis of every situation. Thank you for asking and listening...
I am NOT your model minority!
Anonymous, UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health The model minority stereotype is pervasive and cuts across all fields, including health. A few years...
I was saying your name wrong
Maddie Batzli, Staff For the first month that I knew you. It would have been so easy to just ask, the first time we met,...
“Why don’t you just get it?”
Andrea Kratzke Nelson I personally have to take multiple pills each day. When I worked in Englewood, a primarily black and lower socioeconomic neighborhood in...
Wisdom: What does it look like?
Shelly Shaw, Associate Director, Office of Community Health I’ve been wondering about how we define wisdom in a world full of credentials: MDs, DOs, PhDs,...
Knock, knock and then you enter.
Yusuf Abdullah, Resident Wonder what they have been thinking. You break the silence and crack a smile. Introduce yourself first, and then you greet them....
