sim’s Reviews > Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic > Status Update

hmm… some parts haven’t held up against the evolution of “political correctness”—i.e., some parts made me raise a brow—but martina recognizes her position as a white physician working with vulnerable POC and practices self-reflection & humility - ie, she does her best!

hmm... some parts have not held up against the evolution of "political correctness" — i.e., some parts made me raise a brow — but as a white person in a position of power (i.e., physician) working with vulnerable POC, I think maria is doing her best!

“Indigenous cultures are not failed attempts at modernity, let alone failed attempts to be us. They are unique expressions of the human imagination and heart, unique answers to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive?”