“They’re just a bunch of women who don’t know anything, so you’ll be manager in six months.”
Just because you're a doctor or a nurse, that doesn't mean you're safe from harassment in the workplace. There are moments of sexism, big and small, that women in medicine have to deal with on a regular basis. The smaller moments, which are less reported and more common, become just another part of the job. These are those stories — and it should be noted that all of the women who contributed chose to do so anonymously for fear of losing their jobs.
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"I know a girl who was once handed the suction in the operating room and told to, 'Suck it like the whore [you] know you are.' The surgeon apparently does this a lot to females — from nurses to med students to residents — and thinks that it's funny. One girl in my year complained and he took it down a notch."
—Anonymous (Doctor)
"When I was a medical student, I was assigned to work a 12-hour shift in the emergency room with an attending physician — a male — who was incredibly crude. Most of the shift was tolerable, but about two-thirds of the way through, he started to tell this joke about how he had once treated a Jewish woman who told him she needed to hurry to get home to blow the shofar, to which he (supposedly) replied: 'You have to go home and blow the chauffeur? Wow, he's one lucky guy!' He yukked it up and repeated the punch line over and over, clearly very proud of himself.
By that time I really couldn't take any more of him, so when he went to check on a patient, I left. Not the most mature or responsible way to handle the situation, but the man wasn't teaching me any medicine, only how to keep a straight face when feeling outraged and disgusted."
—Anonymous (Doctor)
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