Category Archives: Women at Work

Finding My “Essence” On Martha’s Vineyard—My Last Treat Before Hurricane Earl and My Morning Ferry Sailing Away from Paradise

By Linda | September 7, 2010

No, this post is not about shopping for perfumes. But it is about finding the “essence” of Linda Brodsky (with or without the MD, PC, FACS and FAAP) a/k/a Linda Greenfield. It was a fun exercise which created a new awareness and a new friendship.
You might be thinking, “On what planet has she [...]

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Overcoming Gender Discrimination in Medicine—Whose Job Is It Anyway?

By Linda | September 1, 2010

Okay, okay! We know that there is gender bias and discrimination in the House of Medicine. Anyone who fails to see that it still exists must be both blind and deaf to the reports that continue to assail us. The subject has been studied to death and yet gender bias still hangs [...]

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Gender Bias Can Be Lethal to Too Many Women Physicians—Part 2

By Linda | August 16, 2010

Gender bias, gender stereotyping, sexual harassment, and other forms of illegal but all too prevalent gender discrimination are lethal to some women physicians. At least 4 times more lethal if you are doctor than if you are not.
Resolutions offered to women physicians in response to these deadly experiences are entirely inadequate; the real problems [...]

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Finding Help When You Need It Most, Part 1

By Linda | August 2, 2010

Finding the right person to help care for your family takes a lot of time and a little bit of luck. Keep an open mind. In large cities, such as New York and Los Angeles, agencies may be a good first step. You must be careful. Some may charge a high [...]

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Having It All, In Sweden That Is

By Linda | June 14, 2010

In a NY Times column called “The Female Factor,” Katrin Bennhold, a serious economist turned journalist teases us with the title “In Sweden, the Men Can Have It All.” Intrigued, I read the article. While Sweden has been legislating equal rights at work for women, they have been equally as busy legislating and enforcing [...]

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Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan: Is Her Appointment Good for Women?

By Linda | May 26, 2010

I know very little about Elena Kagan save for the fact that she is a tenured professor and former Dean of Harvard Law School. I know that she has had no judicial (and for that fact little governmental) experience. She is an Obama appointee who is now Solicitor General of the US, representing the US [...]

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Woman of Valor: What’s a Woman’s Worth Anyway?

By Linda | May 13, 2010

A lot, especially if you are Lori Van Dusen and Associates, who have spent more than 2 decades advising clients about wealth accumulation (another way of saying “saving for a rainy day”). Since we are talking about more than $8 billion, you can understand what rankled the well-known firm of Smith Barney when, [...]

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The Fem 2.0 Blog Carnival: Shifting the Public Narrative

By Linda | February 11, 2010

A Work/Life Balancing Act—We Need More Net!
A blog carnival! Get onboard for another not-so-thrilling ride on the merry-go-round of “shifting the public narrative”, a/k/a “bringing more attention,” to how we (women) need to have help in balancing work and life! I, for one, am tired of going round and round and round, and [...]

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Who Are You Anyway?

By Linda | February 1, 2010

Patients in the hospital need to be seen everyday by an attending physician (I believe the assignation “attending” comes from the idea that the doctor is “attending” to a patient’s health or care). Rounding is the name of this activity which requires me to go around and see the patients for whom I care [...]

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Crisis in Healthcare or Crisis in Culture? You Be the Judge

By Linda | January 25, 2010

TMI. Too Much Information. That’s what I told my husband last night as we were driving to our favorite Thai restaurant to meet friends for dinner. My book writing has been stymied by just too much information. And most of it was contradictory, incomplete or just plain wrong.
He challenged me and [...]

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