Dr. Sunita Sah
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 6 Feb
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And Clara came in two weeks late. She had moved from Hastings in the south of England to the north. And so she was different a little bit. I was also different. I was just one of a handful of non-white girls at the school. And we became really close friends, even though we were so different from each other.
Absolutely. I was like, how can she do that? Because she just walked in. We had this sort of checkered blue and white blouse that we'd wear and a red sweater. She walked in without the red sweater. She just stood out so much. And I was like, who is she?
Especially because the headmistress had said before, I want everybody in their red sweaters because when I look out, I just want to see a sea of red.
Thank you.
I remember, I think a few years before that, maybe when I was at middle school, my dad got me these bright red, like warmers. When my dad bought them for me, I was like, I just didn't want to wear them. They're too bright. Give me black so I can kind of blend in. And it was like, no, we can't return them now. So I have to wear these things to school. And it was excruciating, right?
I was trying to hide them with my coat. I was like, no, no, I don't want to be wearing this. But then I kind of changed when I went to St. Joseph's and when the headmistress said like a sea of red, I was like, hmm, I'm not sure about that. And I had the song of Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd kind of playing, right? So I was getting quite attracted to these kinds of things.
I was more questioning. Oh, that's right. Why do they want us to conform so much? Because I was so used to obeying and doing and getting rewards for that. I would see teachers doing things that I thought were unfair. So when I was at middle school, I saw one of my teachers beating up another kid. Oh. And that was horrifying to me.
And I remember meeting him in the corner shop that we had just down the road. And I was really scared, but he was so nice and friendly to me. And in my child's mind, I basically thought that was because he thought I was good. Yeah, you were good. He only beats bad people. He only beats bad people. And so I tried like hell never to be bad.
So I wouldn't get treated like the way that boy got treated. But it really unnerved me, right? It left something there as to why are teachers expecting us to behave in this particular way?
And when I realized that people in authority can do things like that, they can be unethical, incompetent, and just plain stupid, then you start to question the people that are in charge maybe don't have our best interests in mind.
In some ways, it's excessive at medical school. All right. Yeah. When I came to the US, it was fascinating when we were trying to find an apartment to rent. As soon as you say I'm a doctor.
Some of the people I know that are completely wild and off track are doctors. Of course. Yeah. There's a lot of stress release. Yes.
Oh, yeah. We had some good nights.
That really haunted me because they were rookie officers. And the guy with the knee on the neck was their training supervisor. So that image of George Floyd is ingrained in lots of people's minds and it's horrific. Also, when I think about the rookie officers, I always think, what would I have done? Because they're obeying. They're in a line of hierarchy. They've been trained to obey.
And even though in the manual, if your officer is asking you to do something unethical and things you should defy or say something, it's impossible. And people are saying, why did they do that? Why did they not say no? It's so impossible to do that in certain situations, especially if you haven't anticipated it, confronted it before, know how to react appropriately.
practiced it rather than just intellectually knowing.
Yeah. And so often our actions just don't align with our values. And we see this time and time again. And this is what I wanted to study in more depth. Why is that? We can sit here in our armchairs, right? And just say, oh, we wouldn't do that. We would act in this particular way. But when you're actually in that situation, it's so difficult.
Yeah.
That day, I had this immense central chest pain and I hadn't felt any pain like this before. So I was worried about it and I thought I need to get this checked out. I was fairly new to having moved to the US. And so I went to the emergency room and immediately there's loads of tests being done. And they did an electrocardiogram, which was the main thing I was concerned about.
Like, am I having a heart attack? Yeah. And everything was normal, thank goodness. And the pain was subsiding. It was going away. So I thought, great, I'm going to be discharged. And then the doctor came in. She was kind of young and confident. And she just said, oh, I'll need you to have a CT scan before you go. And I was like, why?
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