#medbikini

I had to write a short essay on medical professionalism in the age of social media and the #medbikini controversy from this summer, which got me thinking about this blog (currently my only form of social media). 🧐🤔

To talk about vaccines, abortions, gun violence, the obesity problems, this whole corona mess, political misinformation and so much more. This is where we need them. We can’t start excluding doctors from taking part in society because they must be “professional”.. this is ridiculous. We need a purge of all this old stuffy ideals and we need to adapt our world view to the world that we are currently living in cause it’s not gonna change backwards that much is for sure.

"Can't doctors have fun?"

I know they look cool but lab coats don't mix with beaches. 👩🏽‍🔬👙🏝 I stand with the women surgeons who were unfairly profiled in the #journalofvascularsurgery for wearing bathing suits, among other perfectly normal things. Being scrutinized for your attire is far too common an experience for women across the globe; and those of us in the medical profession are no strangers to it either. I sincerely hope that both the journal and the people behind the "study" have learned a tremendous lesson about respecting women and focusing on what truly matters! To all the women who are doctors, nurses, midwives, PAs, anesthesiologists, EMTs, firefighters, phlebotomists, and every other health profession: 🗣 May we continue to mind the business that pays us well while serving looks! #medbikini #journalofvascularsurgery #womeninstem #medicaltechnologist (at Woburn, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDe48qcpSjC/?igshid=1qnw2jyoviogt

#MedBikini - A Protest Against Shaming Female Doctors

A now-retracted study published in an online medical journal highlighted the gender and racial biases that have always affected the field: “it said the quiet part out loud.”

A 2019 report in the New England Journal of Medicine found that sexual harassment, gender discrimination and verbal abuse have contributed to high rates of burnout among female doctors. The survey of 7,400 surgical residents found that 65 percent of women experienced gender discrimination on the job, either from patients, attending physicians or other staff, and 20 percent reported sexual harassment. A recent international salary survey found that female doctors make 20 to 29 percent less than their male counterparts.

A study of “professionalism” based on physicians’ social media posts shows how people with privilege can target women, people of color, sexual and gender minorities, and anyone else they don’t approve of.