Kimberly Manning
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586 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2020
last heard Sep 2020
Kimberly Manning’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now the day is
One of our storytellers was a rotating student in emergency medicine, and they were doing sort of the FAST study, right, where
learn how to do ultrasounds in trauma.
And the medical students were serving as the models for learning how to do these ultrasounds.
And this particular medical student, who's a Black man,
was lying on this table as emergency medicine residents ran an ultrasound probe over his abdomen.
And the teacher pointed out that, oh my gosh, this is the exact body that you're going to be working on.
This is a perfect specimen, which in a way, obviously the teacher caught themselves while talking and recognized that
really what they were saying is, this is the target, right?
This is the target.
So, like, while we aren't ideal for ballet, how much does it suck that you're ideal for teaching somebody how to look for free blood in an abdomen after a gunshot?
That's bugged
I saw that as like this quiet, painful narrative that sometimes is experienced by Black people that happens like right out in the open, but people don't realize that it's happening.
You know what I mean?
Like where...
Like if you have lived it, you see it, right?
But if you haven't lived it, it could just fly under your radar.
I actually wanted to backtrack to something that made me think about that very thing, which was when we had the COVID episode, Ashley, there was a storyteller who talked about this experience of having an ex-boyfriend call and say that the ex's parent was sick with COVID in the hospital.
And obviously, it was a complex story, right?
Because it really weaved in all the pain of a breakup and
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