Not a Med Student

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With respect to my last blog, I want to clarify: I am not a medical student. I know many medical students, but I'm not one. I'm just nosy and vengeful. Either you know me, or you don't. Don't worry about it.

Let me think of a way to 'prove that'. Hmm. I don't think doctors, or anyone, should make more than $100,000 in salary. Patients, besides being sucked dry by parasitical insurance firms, suffer from healthcare being privatized and thus driven by shareholders and doctor-capitalists. The way certain doctors treat nurses disgusts me, due to the employer-employee and/or superior-subordinate relationship they have. I appreciate people who enter the medical field to serve others, while I don't respect people who enter the medical field as a business venture—which is a lot of people, since the schools are also business ventures which concentrate access in the hands of nepo babies and other in-groups. I think these dynamics are responsible for the gunner culture endemic to medical education, which is itself responsible for anti-social personalities like Joshua E. Lewis and their negligence towards patients whom healthcare is meant to serve.

I'm also scared of gore and corpses, so I wouldn't have survived lab or other things. I'm grateful for everything doctors do, especially when they do so with empathy and compassion for others, but I am not a medical student. Besides, how many transsexuals attend your school, mamas? I am not closeted. If I attended your school, y'all would know exactly who I am—but I don't, so you (probably) don't.

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  1. Phantom IslandMarch 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM

    Couldn't agree more, especially with this: "I appreciate people who enter the medical field to serve others, while I don't respect people who enter the medical field as a business venture—which is a lot of people, since the schools are also business ventures which concentrate access in the hands of nepo babies and other in-groups". Joshua E. Lewis is an idiot, and a dangerous idiot.

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  2. BenApril 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM

    First of all: Agreed on all counts. After knowing a couple of friends who went to med school and started residency during the peak of the pandemic, I have more respect than ever for the two of them who specifically sought out work in emergency departments to make a difference in those trying times. I also saw the psychological damage they suffered as a result. Now they make less money than their more selfish peers, and are frankly, mentally fucked up from the whole experience.

    Second of all (and unrelated to the post): I have a couple of questions around publishing a piece in a similar vein to FMC (essentially a clean reproduction of an out-of-print product that I’d like to publish for no profit), and I was wondering what the best way to contact you was—I’d love to pick your brain about your experience doing so. Thanks!

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    1. Marcia B.April 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM

      hi ben, sorry for the late response since i've been trying to not look at my blog! please reach out to me on bluesky (handle is itch URL: @traversefantasy.itch.io) or discord (@marcia.x3). very excited to hear you're working on something similar! :)

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