- Inside of the medical guild patients usually refer to female doctors not as their profession indicates, but as “ladies” or “girls.
- The doctors report that there is a gender inequality in their daily practice, in a proportion of more than five times, not only on the part of the patients.
- Should we get rid of the idea that the doctor is the man and the nurse is the woman, or that the higher-ranking staff will always be the man?
Surely you have heard it, within the medical guild patients usually refer to female doctors not as their profession indicates, but as “Misses” “girls” or in the worst case, they ask to be served by a man.
Which minimizes their work within the medical field.
A user reported the above, evidencing the various pronouns that the patients assign him, of everything, except those of his own medical title; doctor.
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The situation in Mexico
In it gender report in clinical practice: Mexico 2021we can begin to notice that it is a fact and not “an exaggeration” that compared to male doctors, female doctors report that there is a gender inequality in their daily practice, in a proportion of more than five times. Also, thanks to this report, we check what is constantly being heard: the union between the women of the guild is getting stronger (and for good), seeking support among equals.
In fact, of all the doctors in Mexico, 57 percent are female, and yet two thirds of the paid positions in the field are held by men, while they earn, on average, 30 percent less.
The hospital culture has to change, and this will be achieved when we all team up, starting with something that may seem simple, but it is not: language.
I’m a doctor, not a lady: the initiative to put a stop to ignorance
The Dr. Ana Cecilia Jaraa specialist in genetics and currently finishing his high specialty, created the initiative I’m a doctor, not miss, stating:
“This movement arises from experiences that I thought were only mine, but I discovered that we all live them. We want doctors, engineers, lawyers, architects, accountants, deputies… to be seen based on their abilities”.
What is sought with this initiative?
Begin to change the language, avoid accepting the “You can’t do anything because that’s the way things are”, start with the change within the union: correct the doctors who accuse women of having less capacity or that they should desert the profession because “they have to be mothers” or choose one “specialty for women”.
Likewise, it seeks to change the language outside the guild, with the patients; How many times have we heard:
“Miss, is the doctor coming yet?” or the reference to our colleagues as “girl”? It is pertinent to clarify that here we do not seek to humiliate the patient for his way of expressing himself. But attempts are made to empower (both male and female doctors) so that we educate the patient in the perception of the female role in medicine.
That is, simplifying it: remove the idea that the doctor is the man and the nurse is the woman, or that the higher-ranking staff will always be the man.
The change in language is the first step to eliminate stereotypes…
These labels no longer have a place in the world today, there are nurses (whose work as nursing staff, regardless of the gender. It is one of the most important pillars to maintain institutions and health in general) and there are also directors of the most important institutions and governments today.
This is not intended to diminish or enhance someone’s work, it is simply about looking for what in theory it should always have been: a female doctor deserves the same treatment and deference with which a male doctor is treated.
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