Thursday, July 7, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Honorary Doctorate
Oprah Winfrey is getting an honorary doctorate from some college. Yay for her. I like O. She's worked hard and the recognition makes me smile.
You know who should get honorary doctorates? Women going through infertility treatments. After all is said and done, they can hold their own in a conversation with any doctor about any fertility related issue and medical condition that even remotely will, may, or can happen during routine treatment. Not to mention any other complication or offshoot of some new problem connected to the condition. Including all the above, but also, details of procedures, protocol, surgeries, medications, recuperation and therapy (both mental and physical, with the knowledge of all the drugs and exercises that encompasses).
They should get the Honorary Doctorate especially if all this work and knowledge failed them. Actually they should decisively get it if all their attempts have failed. They should get this recognition at the very least to acknowledge their physical and mental struggles; reading all the documentation they could get their hands on, for instance, personal testimony, books and medical journals all while baby sittings someone else's child or trying to balance their infertility and keep their marriage together.
Isn't this what doctors go through in medical school and interning? At the end, don't they get a degree saying they learned all the required material, took all the tests, neglected the rest of their lives in order to accomplish this. one. thing? All the while paying enormous sums of money they will have to pay off for decades?
What's the difference?
Doctors get a degree that says they can now make a lot of money and now have the means to fix the lives they neglected and broke due to the sacrifices they made.
Infertile women get to live in loss, and debt with very little if anything to show for it (empty fertility drug bottles and used syringes and boxes of unused progesterone), except maybe their marriage is still intact...maybe.
If they get nothing else, they should at least get this. At the VERY least.
You know who should get honorary doctorates? Women going through infertility treatments. After all is said and done, they can hold their own in a conversation with any doctor about any fertility related issue and medical condition that even remotely will, may, or can happen during routine treatment. Not to mention any other complication or offshoot of some new problem connected to the condition. Including all the above, but also, details of procedures, protocol, surgeries, medications, recuperation and therapy (both mental and physical, with the knowledge of all the drugs and exercises that encompasses).
Isn't this what doctors go through in medical school and interning? At the end, don't they get a degree saying they learned all the required material, took all the tests, neglected the rest of their lives in order to accomplish this. one. thing? All the while paying enormous sums of money they will have to pay off for decades?
What's the difference?
Doctors get a degree that says they can now make a lot of money and now have the means to fix the lives they neglected and broke due to the sacrifices they made.
Infertile women get to live in loss, and debt with very little if anything to show for it (empty fertility drug bottles and used syringes and boxes of unused progesterone), except maybe their marriage is still intact...maybe.
If they get nothing else, they should at least get this. At the VERY least.
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