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cmp45
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| 007 wrote: |
BTW, isabel, your avatar is frieghtening, and I think it needs a lady doctor to fix it!  |
I think just a face cloth and some soapy water would do  |
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isabel
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Lighten up guys- that happens to be the latest look from MAC. |
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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I think that yer purrrty!
NCTBA |
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boysfromtheblackstuff
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| How do i get an avatar? |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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The last I heard, you need to have 100 posts first. If you go to your "profile" the adding of the avatar shows up at the bottom of your page.
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boysfromtheblackstuff
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:47 am Post subject: |
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Thanks VS,
looks like I've a long way to go.....  |
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isabel
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| Never Ceased To Be Amazed wrote: |
I think that yer purrrty!
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Thanks! A man with taste. |
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Mia Xanthi
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Teta Mia, do you think a lady doctor can solve the health problem in PMU? |
This is yet another grievance from the women's side at PMU that to my knowledge has yet to be solved. The men's side has had a male doctor on staff from almost the opening days of the university. The female side has had only a nurse. Many of the women consider this not only discriminatory but dangerous as well. The female students at PMU include a large number of married women, many of whom are pregnant while they are attending classes. It is insufficient for them to be stuck out in the desert with only a nurse to care for them if they go into labor or have any other major health problems.
As we all know, the idea of the male doctor coming over to care for a female student would be...uhmmm..."controversial" at best. There are those (especially on the men's side) who would rather see the female or the baby go untreated rather than violate the "no mingling" policy that prohibits the male doctor from visiting the female campus or even examining her in a gender-neutral spot such as an ambulance.
The other way that this "no lady doctor" policy discriminates is less dangerous but still infuriating for female employees. Since PMU requires a doctor's certificate for even one day off work due to illness, the men's side has a great advantage in that male employees can just pop into the clinic and have the male doctor examine them and write a note saying that the person is truly ill. Such certificates are not accepted from nurses, so female teachers have to pay for a taxi and trek all the way downtown to the hospital, wait in line at the emergency entrance, all in order to finally receive a certificate saying that you are sick for ONE day. If you are sick the second day, you must repeat the process. This gets expensive (30-40SAR for round-trip taxi fare and 35 SAR for the doctor visit.) for the female teachers, who feel that it is discriminatory that their male colleagues are provided on-site, free medical care.
So, in answer to your question, 007, a lady doctor could indeed solve some of the problems at PMU....but I'm afraid the place would need a fleet of well-qualified cross-cultural psychiatrists to really get to the heart of what ails PMU.   |
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Mia Xanthi
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And BTW, while we are on the topics of medical care at PMU, it is true that a nurse was actually fired (or sacked or let go...whatever you say, she lost her job) for selling sanitary napkins in the clinic.
The university had no machines in the bathrooms to dispense such items, and no budget to buy them and give them out free at the clinic. Needless to say, with a female student population of 500+, not even counting faculty and staff, and considering that the university is stuck out in the desert with at least a 25-minute drive to a store that could sell sanitary napkins....that is, IF female students could drive or wouldn't be too embarrassed to tell their male drivers to go pick up such items for them, sanitary napkins really need to be made available at the campus.
When the American female director and the nurse put their heads together, they came up with the practical solution of the director purchasing sanitary napkins our of her own funds and asking the nurse to make them available to the students at cost. There was no profit being made on this for anyone.
Nevertheless, when the male admin found out that sanitary napkins were beinig sold at cost on campus without his approval, he hit the roof. He fired the Filipina nurse involved, and many people believe that this was one of the biggest reasons behind the demotion of the female director shortly thereafter. She seemed to be doing a fine job otherwise.
As usual, with stories out of KSA, this is the kind of stuff you couldn't make up. |
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