Dara Kass, MD 
On todays podcast Dara is joined by 2 guests, Dr. Jane Van Dis and Dr. Scherly Leon, discussing greeting and salutations. First, Jane reviews a recent article article Speaker Introductions at Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Forms of Address Reveal Gender Bias. Next, Shherly walks us through a recent social media conversation surrounding an email from a recruiter and finally they just chat about when and where they think greetings and salutations matter. Let’s just say, they all get a little riled up.
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Omg thank you so much for this episode. I LOVE how worked up you got about the recruiter! I am a young, black, queer, female emergency medicine physician in an academic ED in California . I literally had an experience last week in which a (white male) paramedic intern whom I’d never met addressed me by my first name to ask for permission to intubate a critically ill patient in my resuscitation bay. It was jarring, to say the least. This is not the first experience I’ve had around aspects of my identity playing out in the ED. I have… Read more »