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thelostmedstudent

ANGLO MED STUDENTS & DOCTORS. HELP.

Just moved to a city where the primary care language is English (AKA nooottttt the language I studied medicine in)

AND I’m struggling so much with all these damn abbreviations!!! AND how to write notes efficiently!

PLEASE SEND LIST OF HELPFUL ABBREVIATIONS?!

Like especially for physical exams & plans?!

THANKS YALL.

belleofthehospital

I got you! That sounds so hard!

This site has them super well organized for a physical exam

https://wiki.ucfilespace.uc.edu/sandbox/groups/uccom2014/wiki/58ef9/attachments/bceca/medical%20abbreviations.pdf?sessionID=774871e96fae33f0ba78d044ba88c43cb1191a6c

Also if you go to page 15 of this guide, it has abbreviations approved for the Step 2 CS exam, and it’s some of the more important ones.

https://www.usmle.org/pdfs/step-2-cs/cs-info-manual.pdf

thelostmedstudent

THIS IS AMAZING!!

cranquis

boosting

kendrajk

YOU ONLY KEEP ONE BULL

(Originally published in Comics For Choice)

thehornedwitch-deactivated20211

And the rest, my darlings, are meat.

glitterandrocketfuel

Never punched reblog so fast in my life

Ireland Day 2/3: Dublin, Howth, Kilkenny

The last few days have been a whirlwind. Yesterday I got to my Airbnb in Dublin and slept for an hour, showered, changed, and felt like a new human. I then went wandering the city to find some lunch, ate at a good bar (Quay something) in the temple district area.

Then the fun began. I met up with one group mate (I’m currently in a group of 14, we’re adding one in a few days) and he and I went to a local bar farther from the temple bar (can’t remember the name, but it was a purple building) area to have a pint. We drank and listened to locals and overall chatted about anything. We then walked some more of downtown and ended up at another pub (O’Shea’s marketplace). Does this shock anyone? Ireland is just lots of pubs. We ate and drank some more, I even tried 20 year old whiskey (I’m not a whiskey fan. Still). We then had 4 other travel mates join us and we wandered to another pub (Mulligans). We ended up at the Brazen Inn, the oldest bar in Dublin. We were all so jet lagged but enjoyed the day. I had Smithwick’s Red ale all day, a local Irish beer and it was delicious. We all went our own way to sleep and meet up at the airport in the morning.

The following day (aka Thursday) we all met at the airport then headed to Howth where we did a beautiful walk along the cliffs on the bay of Dublin (admittedly I was a little afraid of the heights but it was gorgeous). It’s way warmer than expected. We ate amazing seafood (we were on the bay). Then headed off to Kilkenny, a 2 hour bus ride.

We arrived in Kilkenny, passing multiple old and beautiful buildings. To end at our guesthouse, where we could freshen up then it was off to see some of Kilkenny. We saw one of the 3 round towers in Ireland that you can still climb. And lots of old building closer to the city center. We learned about the Vikings, the Celtic cross, and castles. We had an amazing dinner where I had lemon and poppyseed taffy because why not try new things. It was a delicious piece of cake and ice cream with fresh fruit and a lemon taste to everything. I had more beer in the last 2 days then I feel like I’ve drank in a long time but we have done so much walking I don’t think it matters.

Now I’m back at the guesthouse and it’s 11:30 and I am so jazzed about everything we’ve done so far and what we have planned tomorrow that I don’t want to sleep. But need to sleep now. More updates tomorrow.

#so much fun #loving ireland #kilkenny #howth #smithwicks #red ale is delicious #powering through my fear of heights #weather has been better than expected

Europe Trip Day 1 and 2

Left my hometown at 2pm for a flight to Rhode Island. When I got here my connecting flight wasn’t up on the departure board. When I checked my trip information through my booking provider the flight had been moved to the following day. So my now 4 hour layover turned into a 28 hour layover.

Trying to go with the flow I got the cheapest airport hotel, walked to a bar for dinner, went back the the hotel and passed out. I am going to a Ireland and the UK, meaning I’ll have a 5 hour time shift to deal with.

Woke up early this morning, hung out til check out at 12. Then headed to the airport. Where I have now been sitting for 3.5 hours. I’ve read a book on Kindle, eaten half a sandwich. And now wait til I can check in to my flight at approximately 5. 1.5 more hours to go.

Not how I wanted to start my trip to Europe but going with the flow. Can’t wait to land in Dublin in 10.5 hours and get to exploring.

First day picture:

#graduation trip #medblr #first time to Europe #Ireland and the UK

sorayachemaly

Even little kids have a wage gap

Boys, on average, spend two fewer hours doing household chores per week than girls do (they play two hours more).

If they live in households where children are compensated for doing chores, boys make and save more money.

A 2009 study conducted by University of Michigan economists found a two-hour gender disparity in responsibilities per week in a study of 3,000 kids.

75 percent of girls had chores, while just 65 percent of boys do

This disparity in chores and free time continues into adulthood all over the world. According to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), men “report spending more time in activities counted as leisure than women. Gender differences in leisure time are wide across OECD countries.”

Year after year, studies repeatedly confirm these patterns.

The problems women face with unequal pay and housework duties actually start in childhood.

The fact that boys’ chores appear to be more profitable makes the childhood chore gap even more disturbing. Turns out, parents tend to value the work that boys do more.

Gender stereotypes dictate these patterns.

men who grow up with sisters do less housework than their spouses and are also significantly more socially conservative.

lizardtitties

Just had to bold that bottom point there because of the amount of misogynists who claim that because they have women in their family, they can’t POSSIBLY be sexist ever.

nocakeno

oh my fucking god

jewish-people-problems

Jewish People Problem #20

When you can’t find a single book with a Jewish protagonist that isn’t about the holocaust

gayjewishbish

I actually read a really nice novel that had decent Jewish representation when I was in college and its story was about a murder mystery. Due to how my memory works, I lost the book and I forgot the title :( :( :(

overgoldengroveunleaving

okay I wrote a really long thing and my phone deleted it so here is take 2 of my MASTERPOST OF NON-HOLOCAUST-CENTRIC JEWISH MC’s:

Historical Fiction

“All Other Nights” by Dara Horn - Jewish spy for the union in the civil war

“Shylock’s Daughter” by Marjam Pressler - retelling of the Merchant of Venice with a sympathetic Shylock and a historically accurate look at the Ashkenazi AND Sephardic Jewish community in 16th century Italy

“The Chosen” by Chaim Potok - Hassidic + Modern Orthodox Jewish boys ‘friendship’ (lbr we all ship it) in 1945-1948 NYC

“My Name is Asher Lev” by Chaim Potok - ultra-orthodox Jewish boy takes up art, paints a crucifixion scene, and sh*t hits the fan

“The Museum of Extraordinary Things” - Jewish photographer + (non-Jewish) daughter of a sideshow owner meet and fall in love in turn of the century Brooklyn, and also a subplot about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

“Escape from Egypt” by Sonia Levitin - retelling of the Passover story

“Daniel Deronda” by George Eliot - it’s like Jane Austen. With Jews! (And while everything is not all hunky-dory, it’s also not the antisemitic travesty I’ve come to expect from 19th century gentile writers).

Contemporary

“Hacking Harvard” by Robin Wasserman - 3 nerds take on a bet to get a slacker/stoner into Harvard (also a really nice critique of the college admissions process tbh)

“The Pact” by Jodi Picoult - (suicide tw) A tragedy hits 2 families. The novel centers on a trial and flashbacks to the event in question.

“Someone to Run With” by David Grossman - set on the streets of Jerusalem, a boy tries to return a lost dog to its owner, a girl who has run away from home in search of her brother (this is the English translation, obviously, but if you can read novels in Hebrew I highly recommend reading the original, משהו לרוץ איתו)

Urban Fantasy/Fantasy/SciFi

“The Mediator” series by Meg Cabot - teenaged girl starts seeing ghosts / YA romance (although the fact that the MC is Jewish is not even remotely relevant to the plot, it is mentioned outright several times which is more than most books)

“The Cure” by Sonia Levitin - futuristic dystopian society tries to cure one young man’s appreciation of music by sending him to a Jewish shtetl in 13th century Poland (fair warning for dystopian fans, though, the middle 2/3rds reads like historical fiction, so.)

Children’s (Middle Grade) Books

“All of a Kind Family” by Sydney Taylor - the classic “1920s NYC Jewish family”

“Dave at Night” by Gail Carson Levine - boy sneaks out of an orphanage in early 20th century NYC

“Witness” by Karen Taylor Hesse - told in free verse, the KKK visits a small town (I’m including it because it’s not a Holocaust book, and it’s really good, but it still might will set off your antisemitism sensors so fair warning)

“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” by Judy Blume - Classic. (Also, takes on an interfaith family in a really interesting and nuanced way!)

“Samir and Yonatan” by Daniella Carmi - two boys (one Israeli, one Palestinian) end up in the same hospital and learn that they have more in common than they thought

Plays

“Angels in America” by Harold Kushner - I can’t even begin to describe this one just google it. (or: Jewish and Mormon gay people in NYC during the AIDS epidemic, and also angels)

“Thirteen: The Musical” by Dan Elish and Robert Horn, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown - Jewish boy’s parents get divorced and he moves from NYC to Appleton, Indiana right before his Bar Mitzvah

annekewrites

Also for children’s books: Rebecca in the American Girl historical collection is a Russian Jewish immigrant.

Also for weird epic romances, I remember Cynthia Freeman having a lot of Jewish protagonists. One of her books (Illusions of Love) slightly discusses the Holocaust but it is from the perspective of an American Jewish character who served in World War II and it’s not presented as *the* thing that defines him. (Most of that book is a love triangle between this character, the Nice Jewish Girl his parents want him to marry, and an Irish-Catholic woman from a poor background who works her way into an advertising career.)

thedappercat

I haven’t read them [yet? to-read list miles long, concentration about an inch long] but if you’re down with indie-pub check out @shiraglassman who authors a series of fantasy novels featuring f/f couples. I’ll bet she knows more novels t add to the list too!

(sorry hope it’s cool i @’ed you ms glassman)

shiraglassman

It is definitely cool! I actually didn’t get the @ notification for some reason but I found this post just poking around Jumblr and then checked the notes to see what people were saying on it. I do have books to add to this list; not just my own–as you said, fluffy f/f-focused fantasy starring Mostly Jews–but also:

Miss Jacobson’s Journey by Carola Dunn (review) - Regency-era spy romance about escaping from France and getting back to England. Hero and heroine are both Jewish and although they’re Ashkies, it has Sephardic rep as well

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (review) - 1900′s fantasy set in the immigrant communities of NYC. Beautiful epic drama about friendship.

…and wonderful graphic novels like The Rabbi’s Cat, the Rabbi Harvey books (our legends told as if they were set in the American Wild West), and the Mirka books (fantasy starring an Orthodox pre-teen girl.)

The YA LGBT contemporaries Gone Gone Gone by Hannah Moskowitz and My Year Zero by Rachel Gold have Jewish MC’s. And non-LGBT but YA about Orthodox teenager is Playing with Matches by Suri Rosen.

By the way, @dappercat, your concentration may have an easier time with the standalone short stories in my universe than my full-length novels: Tales from Perach. They range from 900 to 9000 words and 6 of the 7 of them have Jewish MC’s.

windcalling

@kuttithevangu I assume you’ve seen/read most or all of these but you’re also my brain’s automatic ‘who wants to know about jewish books’ connection also i can’t remember the name of The Really Good Historical Fiction YA, You Know, The Dybbuk One, which along with Kavalier & Clay is the stuff i can think of offhand as missing on this list

kuttithevangu

The Really Good Historical Fiction YA is The Inquisitor’s Apprentice+The Watcher in the Shadows, by Chris Moriarty–Jewish family in 1910s NYC where magic is a thing!!

(Moriarty also has an adult sci-fi series featuring a Jewish AI character who did something mysterious in Tel Aviv back in the day–adult sci-fi is not my thing so I only read the first book but it’s worth mentioning!)

There is also a prominent Jewish character in Sarah Zettel’s American Fairy Trilogy (1930s historical fiction, but with fairies!)

I always have to mention that I Am J, a trans YA that people talk about fairly often, has a patrilineal protagonist–his mother is catholic and he’s baptized, but he actually has a complicated relationship with his Jewishness and says a shechehiyanu for his first hormone shot, and people don’t usually mention that as a draw to the book. The author credits Joy Ladin in her acknowledgments so you know she learned a thing or two about trans Jews probably. I like this book, it’s not super revolutionary but it has its charms.

There are also a good number of YA featuring the triangle shirtwaist factory fire which usually have at least one Jewish protagonist. Lost is my favorite of those (forget the author atm but it’s the one with a green cover with a picture of a feathered hat).

motherfuckingnazgul

There’s also Gary Barwin’s wonderful and occasionally heartwrenching Yiddish for Pirates, which tells the story of a Jewish pirate in the late 15th century!

starlightomatic

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant - Coming of age story of a young Jewish woman in early-20th-century Boston, featuring her friendships, family struggles, love life, and career misadventures.

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant - Torah fanfic focusing on women’s lives , relationships, and spirituality and filling in the story of Dinah.

Light Years by Tammar Stein - After her boyfriend is killed in a terrorist attack, a young Israeli woman tries to get away by going to America for college, but she can’t forget what happened.

The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret - A funny, wistful, silly, reflective collection of stories/essays/anecdotes about the author’s life as a secular Israeli. (nonfiction, but flows like fiction)

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon - Alternative history noir detective story where our hard boiled gumshoe is Yiddish-speaking slivovitz-drinking Meyer Landsman, living in Sitka, Alaska, which is where European Jews went after the Holocaust instead of Israel.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon - Two young Jewish men in 30s/40s NYC use their creativity and ingenuity to break into the emerging comics industry. This is… kind of a Holocaust book since one of the characters is trying to help his brother escape from Europe but mostly it takes place in America.

mattholicguilt

Just wanna recommend “Liner Notes” by Emily Franklin. It’s about a Jewish woman reflecting on her relationship with her mother and her past fraught love life through the mix tapes and songs she loves.

bisexualmoses

It’s been a long time since I’ve read it but one book I liked growing up was The Circlemaker by Maxine Schur, about a 12 year old jewish boy in Russia who’s conscripted to join the military and runs away in order to survive

bisexualmoses

Also the musical the falsettos is about a Jewish family

generalistherbalist

Spinning silver by Naomi Novik is a lovely fantasy read that came out this year. Main character is Jewish, central theme is def more about how she has to defeat winter itself by working together with the tsarina

kneestir92

Saving this for possible future reads.

sleepingbear21

Post call

Waking up in the hospital to a pager alarm

sleepingbear21

Re-emerging from nights back to day shift

kneestir92

Today was my last night for awhile and my body is so confused.

sunflowersandgold

I don’t know the source but amazing advice.

alexiafitness

Well now I see the point of the yoga blocks! Thank you

giffingcartoons

babyanimalgifs

Remember to take it slow with the frozen treats

raiseyourweapon

Legitimately tried not to laugh and failed about 2 seconds in

kneestir92

@smilingisawayoflife I’m dying over here of laughter while you’re at work.

Personal Statement Struggles

I have an outline for a personal statement, but I can’t seem to write an actual statement. I have no idea where to start.

Any help fellow medblrs?

#med school problems #personal statement struggles #medblr #help needed #obgyn resident hopeful #fourth year #ms4

madeonstuck-deactivated20140307

WHY ARENT THERE ADULT-SIZED PLAYGROUNDS

LIKE EVERYTHING IS THE SAME AS A KIDS PLAYGROUND

BUT BIGGER

WHY DO WE NOT HAVE THOSE

geek-in-a-box

theme parks. just. theme parks.

samielcastiel

but u have to pay for theme parks

victorysunshine-blog-blog

that’s the adult part

santhipoma

son of a bitch

tpt-moved

ladies and gentlemen, behold

the St. Louis City Museum:

Playground for adults and children.

They even serve alcohol.

twinkletwinkleyoulittlefuck-dea

I know where we’re going guys

homotology

@bibliophilekindagal and I can confirm. City museum is so much damn fun y’all.

kneestir92

I. Want. To. Go. Here.

4thtrimesterbodiesproject-deact

I absolutely love this graphic. Big thanks to our alumn and amazing human @kat.schuknecht for sharing! 💖 ・・・ Human milk feeding looks different for every family! ❤️ What does it look like in your home? - #chestfeeding #breastfeeding #queerfamilies #inclusivebirth #4thtrimesterbodiesproject #4thtrimester #postpartum #postpartumbody

wishbone-md

Map of medical and surgical residency and fellowship programs in the United States.

In case you haven’t heard of this, this is a site that lets you see all residency programs (with filters) and fellowship programs which is nice if you know you want to stay in a particular region or to look at programs you haven’t heard of. You can search for both residency and fellowship programs together which is helpful if you know you want to do fellowship.

kneestir92

I will need this in a few months

#medblr

caturday

kitterjitters

how do cats even work

dorky-kazard

Cats:

A cat can jump up to five times its own height in a single bound.

The little tufts of hair in a cat’s ear that help keep out dirt direct sounds into the ear, and insulate the ears are called “ear furnishings.”

The ability of a cat to find its way home is called “psi-traveling.” Experts think cats either use the angle of the sunlight to find their way or that cats have magnetized cells in their brains that act as compasses.

One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.

A cat has 230 bones in its body. A human has 206. A cat has no collarbone, so it can fit through any opening the size of its head.

A cat’s nose pad is ridged with a unique pattern, just like the fingerprint of a human.

If they have ample water, cats can tolerate temperatures up to 133 °F.

A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats a minute.

Cats don’t have sweat glands over their bodies like humans do. Instead, they sweat only through their paws.

The claws on the cat’s back paws aren’t as sharp as the claws on the front paws because the claws in the back don’t retract and, consequently, become worn.

Cats make about 100 different sounds. Dogs make only about 10.

Researchers are unsure exactly how a cat purrs. Most veterinarians believe that a cat purrs by vibrating vocal folds deep in the throat. To do this, a muscle in the larynx opens and closes the air passage about 25 times per second.

A cat almost never meows at another cat, mostly just humans. Cats typically will spit, purr, and hiss at other cats.

A cat’s back is extremely flexible because it has up to 53 loosely fitting vertebrae. Humans only have 34.

Some cats have survived falls of over 65 feet (20 meters), due largely to their “righting reflex.” The eyes and balance organs in the inner ear tell it where it is in space so the cat can land on its feet. Even cats without a tail have this ability.

A cat can travel at a top speed of approximately 31 mph (49 km) over a short distance.

A cat’s hearing is better than a dog’s. And a cat can hear high-frequency sounds up to two octaves higher than a human.

A cat’s brain is biologically more similar to a human brain than it is to a dog’s. Both humans and cats have identical regions in their brains that are responsible for emotions.

And that’s how cats work.

darneildtpg

I learned more about cats in this post than I did in my freshamn biology class in college

cady-nighthorse

homotology

Gods perfect murder machines but they weigh 8lbs

kneestir92

@smilingisawayoflife this is for you.

md-admissions

Residency Interview Survival Guide (part 1): 10 program questions that demand answers

Interview season is in full swing for the fourth year med students, and it was only but a few months ago that I was in your shoes.

Now that I’ve been on both sides, I want to share some topics I wished I had taken more seriously, and why I think you should, too when you’re creating your rank list. **EDIT: @agreekdoctor made an excellent point: ask these questions of several people, residents and program leadership, to check for any differences.

1. How many sites do residents train at? Very few programs these days have their residents stay at one hospital for the entirety of their training. Find out how far apart these sites are and what that means for your possible future commute, vehicle of choice, and gas budget.

2. How do meals work? As an intern, you’ll spend most of your year in the hospital. You are going to go home exhausted and make less than minimum wage for the hours your keep (this isn’t a joke, this is financial truth). So find out: is the hospital food edible? Do you get a cafeteria discount? How do interns and residents eat at work and off? Is it a meal plan or is a point system like back in college?

3. How do residents get prepped for the boards? Some programs make it a big priority to hold lectures or “boards prep crash courses” to insure that all their residents pass. Others throw the MKSAP books at you and tell you Godspeed.

4. Do the residents here hang out after work aka what do residents do for fun? This innocuous question (I’ve provided two phrasings) can tell you a LOT. This gives you a hint to some unspoken criteria that residencies might be considering: supportive, cohesive teammates versus isolated gunners, married residents versus single people, etc. This also tells you if people LIKE each other. AND tells you what the hell is there to do on your days off.

5. What’s the policy on moonlighting? Moonlighting is the term for when a licensed resident works a few shifts for monetary compensation to bolster our meager salaries. Some programs forbid it, others are totally cool. If you know that you need to support a family, have massive student loans, or want to live in a city with a high cost of living, this will invariably become a consideration. You want to be able to have this choice.

6. Is there an education stipend? My program does not have a stipend. We were told “it was in the works.” This is VERY IMPORTANT. Without an education stipend, you will not get reimbursed for some very expensive shit like:

-Step 3 ($830 dollars)

-UWorld Qbank for Step 3 (from $100-300 depending on months)

-Licensure (+$1000)

-DEA license to write for controlled substances (+$1000)

-Expenses to go to required educational conferences (travel expenses, lodging, food, gas, cost to print the poster if you’re presenting)

-medical apps, new equipment, textbooks, study aids ($$$)

7. What electronic resources are made available to residents? This is the most polite way of asking “Do I have to pay out-of-pocket for Uptodate and Epocrates?” the top two websites and apps we use. Subscriptions to both cost money.

8. What things are provided free of charge by the program? Ask because that which is provided free at one program does not necessarily hold true at another. Extra tip: see if there’s money given to you for moving, because moving can be costly.

9. Have there been or will there be changes to program leadership? I used to think this was the stupidest question. And I now retract that opinion. This does matter to the continuity and management of the program. A bumpy, drama-filled transition in leadership leads to bad feelings that trickles down to the way attendings and other leaders of the program treat residents. The peds program at my hospital had really big changes in leadership and it’s resulted in really disorganized preparation for interview season, which has been incredibly painful for the applicants and the residents.

10. Do the senior residents who will be graduating feel ready to go into the world as practicing physicians? If all of them are terrified or apprehensive, YOU will certainly not be ready for the real world by the time you are in their shoes.

NEXT UP: WHAT SHOULD BE IN YOUR SUITCASE AND BAG ON INTERVIEW DAY

kneestir92

Good to know for the coming year.

ultrafacts

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vancity604778kid

ALICE ROOSEVELT WAS HARDCORE. “She was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, swore at officials, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily as in her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie.

optimysticals

So what I’m reading here is, she was a Roosevelt?

catsuitmonarchy

Well I have a new hero.

khoshekh-yourself-deactivated20

Her whole wikipedia article is gold

“When her father was governor of New York, he and his wife proposed that Alice attend a conservative school for girls in New York City. Pulling out all the stops, Alice wrote, ‘If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will.’”

“Her father took office in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, Jr. in Buffalo (an event that she greeted with “sheer rapture.”)“

“During the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the ship’s pool fully clothed, and coaxed a congressman to join her in the water. (Years later Bobby Kennedy would chide her about the incident, saying it was outrageous for the time, to which the by-then-octogenarian Alice replied that it would only have been outrageous had she removed her clothes.”

“She was dressed in a blue wedding dress and dramatically cut the wedding cake with a sword (borrowed from a military aide attending the reception)”

“When it came time for the Roosevelt family to move out of the White House, Alice buried a Voodoo doll of the new First Lady, Nellie Taft, in the front yard.”

“Later, the Taft White House banned her from her former residence—the first but not the last administration to do so. During Woodrow Wilson’s administration (from which she was banned in 1916 for a bawdy joke at Wilson’s expense)…”

“As an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, “What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, “He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!”

“To Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had jokingly remarked at a party “Here’s my blind date. I am going to call you Alice”, she sarcastically said “Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not.”