Sexism vs. Cultural Imperialism
By SARAH HEARNE
As I was getting ready for bed last night a friend shared a tweet that immediately caught my attention.
https://twitter.com/sbattrawden/status/1143465003409915905
The tweet was of a
paper that has just been published online, titled “Does physician gender
have a significant impact on first-pass success rate of emergency endotracheal
intubation?” and showed the abstract which began,
It is unknown whether female physicians can perform equivalently to male physicians with respect to emergency procedures.
Understandably, this got the backs up of a
lot of people, myself included. Who on earth thinks that’s a valid question to
be researching in this day and age? Are we really still having to battle
assumptions of female inferiority when it comes to things like this? Who on
earth gave this ethics approval, let alone got it though peer review?
I then took a deep breath and asked myself
why a respected journal, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine,
would publish such idiocy. Maybe there was something else going on. The best
way to find out is to read the paper so I got a copy and started reading. The
first thing that struck me was the author affiliations – both are associated
with hospitals in Seoul, South Korea. The second author had an online profile,
he is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine. I couldn’t find the first
author anywhere which made me think they are probably quite early in their
career. The su...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice feminism Korea Research sexism Source Type: blogs
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