When Good Women Decide to Do Nothing

Abstract

Many health professions students struggle with deciding whether and when to challenge their teachers. This graphic memoir, When Good Women Do Nothing, conveys what happened one day in the life of a paramedic student called to help an incarcerated, handcuffed woman in labor who gave birth on a stretcher. The memoir documents numerous clinical and ethical disagreements and decision points throughout the paramedic team's time with this patient.