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Second-year med student Christopher Veal had just learned he failed a remediation course, necessitated because he had failed by just one point his final musculoskeletal exam.
Those failures were bad enough. Then, as a University of Vermont (UVM) dean was giving him this bad news, Veal heard the words he had dreaded. Two former classmates grimly told him: Whenever the dean asked this question, it was a signal he should consider quitting.
In an invited commentary published Feb. 9 in
Academic Medicine, Veal, now in his fourth year at UVM s Larner College of Medicine, described how crushed and terrified he felt. He hid in a stairwell, got down on his knees and cried. He most certainly did want to become a doctor.
ATLANTA (AP) Advocates of a ban on a transgender girls playing girls sports in Georgia have turned to the state Senate, having gained little traction for their proposal in the House.
The Senate Education and Youth Committee voted 5-3 on Wednesday to pass Senate Bill 266, a measure pushed by conservative groups that would ban people born as males from competing for public schools, or for private schools that play against public schools.
The measure moves to the Senate for more debate.
“It only applies to women’s sports. It goes by your biological sex at birth. A transgender could not participate in a women’s sport, said Sen. Marty Harbin, a Tyrone Republican sponsoring the bill.
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