Ohio 8

Listen to Ohio 8, a 26-year-old man from Lakewood, near Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 26

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 23/03/1988

PLACE OF BIRTH: Lakewood, Ohio (in Cleveland metro area)

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Puerto Rican and Caucasian

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: BA/BS and MD

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject was born and raised in the Lakewood area of the Cleveland metro area but attended university in South Bend, Indiana.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: David Nevell

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 07/03/2014

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

[Subject comments on the scripted portion of the reading:] I just imagine, like, she tried all these methods and then literally put this goose down with ether, which is like that chemical they used in the eighteen-hundreds, to put like, people down. [laughter] Like yes, that’s our most, ya know, it’s just the way it was even phrased, it was just like, oh yeah, that was the most, ya know, it was the best explanation, the best thing we could do.

So I grew up just outside of Cleve- like, west side, so like, uh, a suburb called Lakewood, which is about six miles west of the downtown, kinda, core urban area, and so I grew up in that city, and actually, kind of lived there for most of my first, I guess, eighteen years. We moved a couple times but always within the same city. And so, I went there; I didn’t go to the public school; my parents sent me to Catholic school, so I did that for first to eighth grade, and then, uh, I got a scholarship to, uh, like a private school in Lakewood, and so I went to there for four years.

I am, I- I’m finishing up my last year at, um, at Case Western, and then I- I know- I- there’s- I, I matched already into ophthalmology, so I’m gonna head up to Buffalo for the next three to four years. So, it’s kind of like matching into any specialty; it’s, uh, basically, ya know, you decide, pretty much in July of last year, what you kinda wanna do; you do this heinous application system where there’s several essays, no, one essay, multiple letters of recommendation, sort of, your grades, your transcripts, your personal statement, sort of, and it gets packeted and sent out to distinct places that you wanna apply to, and then they look at that and send you invitations to interview with them, and then you go to the interview, and at the end of this whole thing, you kinda decide what places you like out of those you interviewed, and then conversely the programs look at the applicants and say, “Which ones do we want in our program?” And it goes in this magical match system, computer algorithm, that kind of makes the fit that works the best. So, basically, you end up going, kind of, in preference of where you would like to see yourself.

Many, many things about it, ya know, I can go on about, uh, I love the structure of the eye; I, I really enjoy, like, the patience interaction [inaudible] people are really invested in the idea that sight is precious, and that, there’s — when you’re threatened with the chance, the, uh, perspective, of losing that sight, and be also, be able to intervene, and sorta help, is really kind of exciting, and kind of, um, rewarding for me. But there are other cool things, ya know; you get to play with really cool technology, you get to be a little bit of hands on, a little, uh clinical; you get to sort of follow people, long term, like, you can see people when they’re younger, and twenty years later still be doing, sorta, regular check-ups, and kind of, has a little of that primary care aspect to it.

A couple things, I guess, uh, two big things are people who are slightly, like, apathetic towards, like, sort of, in the daily day experiences, sort of, not being able to pull something from it, not being able to learn from what’s going on. I think to, kind of go in and expect to either be handed something all the time or to sorta be like “well this is a useless, waste of my time” ‘cause nothing’s, like, a really waste of your time, and it’s what you put into it is what you get out of it. And then second big thing is people who don’t use their, their freaking turn signals before they turn. Like so, exp-or, or when they do use their signals, but they turn it on the moment they are turning, and so you can’t — there’s no room for you to go around, and there’s no room to navigate, and for me that seems, like, very selfish.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Shawnia Keith (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 03/05/2014

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