All-Male Panels, or ‘Manels,’ Must End
In a field that is for and about women, our presence is notably lacking in leadership and professional opportunities.
All-Male Panels, or ‘Manels,’ Must End

Author
In a field that is for and about women, our presence is notably lacking in leadership and professional opportunities.

Physicians have a right to share their lives on social media. If we hold otherwise, then professionalism becomes a method of controlling behavior.

There is no other discipline in medicine in which our elected officials insert themselves to such a degree into our counseling and care of patients.

The question must be: can we accommodate non-emergent/non-urgent care safely or not, and if yes, which care do we address first as we re-open?

We typically speak of duties under “normal” circumstances, and normal certainly does not describe the current COVID-19 pandemic.

The intention of these drastic measures is to buy all of us the time we need to decrease the number of people who are severely infected at once.
