Yea, educating the people around you is kind of crucial. But it's also tiresome and depressing (I attended >90% white schools until I got to medical school). But I think it's important for people to understand the finer cultural points of the people around them (and by around, I mean the world, because…

Lols. I don't try to. Props to your daughter though. You must have done a good job raising her. It's always been my opinion that if you survive the identity forming years of early adulthood, you come out tougher than your peers. I guess I'll find out if that's true soon enough.

Green eyes? really?! (so it is possible....) I have had several discussions about whether or not America is more/less racist, and whether or not I'd feel more at home here. That's actually a good question. I know northern europe is surprisingly xenophobic, and I know that if I went to nigeria, I'd be considered white.…

I know those feels. I've been half nigerian half white for 24 years. I used to think that meant I had two identities to pick and choose from. But life is nothing like that. I have no one to relate to. I have no culture. My culture is an n of 3 (my sisters and myself), and occupying "a grey area" is more tiresome than…

I guess I'm not really all that upset because 1) people have free reign over what they do with their money, and if they are tricked out of it, well then... their loss and 2) the money is still going to someone, right? I think it's more of a crime that health insurance CEO's are making 100s of millions of dollars…

74% is actually really high when you consider the fact that Somalia also has no government.

Wait, what are the factors that determine birth control dosage? I assumed it was weight because.... most medicines are... But I'm on a much higher dose than any of my friends and sisters. And I haven't really been able to find a reason for this. WHAT'S THE REASON?

Different body types? I can see that for normal people, but these are "models." I have plenty of asian friends who are curvy, but I have a feeling that if we all were 5'9'' and weighed 120 lbs, our bodies would be more or less the same. You could use the argument that black people have wider set hips, but I'm going to…

God if I hear one more white person say black people have a "great rhythm, spirit, etc", I'm going to rhythmically vomit all over my shoes. I can't dance. I really am not that good at playing drums (bongo thru set). I also am not that soulful (I doubt I even have a soul). Gah.... this must be how asians feel when…

Hey, it's higher than the percentage of black doctors (3%).

I think you have every right to ask questions and, as a POC myself, it is nice to see white people ask questions in a non-offensive and curious way. It's lonely dealing with racism on your own so it's nice when white people try to understand the POV of a POC (see what I did there?! Catchy!)

Well said. This statement makes so much more sense than the incapable-of-being-articulated rage I feel. Thank you.

As a rhetorician, this article is disturbing for its many fallacies (pretty well summarized by the if-then statement in the final paragraph).

I'm a medical student in Illinois, and our bioethics course last year told us that we had legal rights enabling us to not treat someone as proclaimed in the above mentioned "Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience." I'm also not happy about this ruling, but I have to respect the law. But also also... I have to go to…

I feel like you should do some soul searching and figure out why you hate "literally" every "single thing about [your] body." I can understand thinking that you are ugly; we all think we are ugly most of the time because everyone puts way too much pressure on women specifically to "be attractive." Which is dumb,…