Dr. Patsy McNeil is the Chief Medical Officer of Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, MD. She is an Emergency Medicine Physician and the Physician Chair of the Women’s Initiative of the USACS Diversity and Inclusion Council. In her FIX19…
I’m a female, but I’m not a feminist. You’d never hear me say that being a woman is difficult. Being a woman in medicine is a different story. How many times during a shift should I have to correct a…
Implicit bias in medicine hinders women’s success, punishes them for having characteristics that are rewarded in men, and lauds men for being barely halfway decent human beings. All. The. Damn. Time. It’s pervasive and if you don’t think it’s that…
The pay gap between men and women has been a subject of interest recently, particularly in 2018 reports by Doximity and Medscape. Notably, the gap favors men, is not explained by obvious factors such as hours worked or choice of…
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a three part series. Evaluations show conflict related to gender, but do those conflicts occur in our clinical practice? Decidedly YES! As a resident running a code, I learned to swaddle my commands for…
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three part series. How do these gender roles play a part in medicine? First, our specialties in medicine can be characterized as more “agentic” vs “communal”. For example, communal specialties are ones…
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three part series. I was raised as “the son my father never had.” I grew up fishing and hunting with the boys or roaming the middle of the soccer field as “controlled…
A recent article written by Dr. Karen Sibert was shared via social media, intending to help women avoid harassment in medicine. Unfortunately, although it was well-intended, the content was questionable. Written by a woman who reportedly went through training when…
Patsy McNeil, MD 
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