twodotsknowwhy: priorisn7: bold-sartorial-statement:appalachiananarchist:dxmedstudent: *raises h
twodotsknowwhy: priorisn7: bold-sartorial-statement: appalachiananarchist: dxmedstudent: *raises hand* Our attending walked into the room wearing her white coat, name badge on, and introduced herself as the doctor. The patient continued to refer to her as nurse the entire time we were there, and when we left, asked when the “real doctor” was coming. This same attending had to stop wearing her (very conservative, knee-length) dresses/skirts because male patients would comment on her legs or try to touch them. An ophthalmologist friend was telling me that she won’t do slit-lamp exams with the door shut anymore because male patients have (more than once) groped her. Racism is still a big problem, too. I have another friend who, just yesterday, was told by a patient something along the lines of “it’s a good thing you aren’t a doctor (he is) because your people are coming here and taking up all the doctor jobs.” And that was definitely one of the milder things I’ve heard patients say about race. They’re usually screaming slurs. I’ve introduced myself as a doctor, discussed treatment options, and when I left, I heard the patient complain that she hadn’t seen a doctor at all. *raises hand* Also, my home hospital has scrub color coding (we even went so far as to put up posters reminding patients of who was who, with pictographs) and it didn’t do a single bit of good. Every male employee, down to the transporters (!), routinely got called “doctor,” while the female physicians got called “nurse” or even “aide”. *head on fire* My parents met in med school. On the day of their graduation, they were headed to the room where the graduates waited before the ceremony when an usher tapped my mother on the shoulder to inform her that “wives and family” were to wait down the hall.The kicker? They went to a historically female school that had only recently gone coed. There class was predominately female but still when the usher saw a couple, they assumed the man was the doctor and the woman was the wife. -- source link