Category Archives: Anger Management

Consciousness Raising for Middle-Aged Male Scientists: Congress’s Solution to Gender Discrimination in the Sciences is Nonsense!

By Linda | June 9, 2010

The House of Representatives has done it again! Another piece of legislation which, on the whole may be helpful for the advancement of science and technology, but its proposed solution for gender equity issues is patently absurd. I must confess that I did not read the entire bill, but suggest you read section [...]

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Missing Women’s Health Week

By Linda | May 18, 2010

Did you know this is woman’s health month? I didn’t.
Did you know this week past was women’s health week? I didn’t.
This past week and this merry month of May are marked on our calendar “to empower women to pay attention to their own health”. Items on the government generated checklist include getting [...]

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April 20, 2010: Un-Equal Pay Day Again

By Linda | April 20, 2010

In 1963 the Equal Pay Act was signed into law by President Kennedy. At that time a “female dollar” was only worth 59 cents compared to 100 cents for a “male dollar.” Now the “female dollar” is worth 77 cents. So doing the arithmetic, in 37 years we have gained 18 cents [...]

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What You Need Is A Man’s Voice

By Linda | March 8, 2010

On International Women’s Day…
Last week I spoke to the Hadassah ladies about the gender gap in healthcare. The statistic that always gets the most “I didn’t know that!” is that heart disease is the number one killer of women in the US today.
But not in this savvy audience. Alas, I had little [...]

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Confronting Gender Issues—Passionate Persuasion or a Deluge of Data?

By Linda | February 24, 2010

The last few months have been filled with new audiences for speech making about gender discrimination in healthcare. In December, when I finished my speech at a small scientific meeting of about 150 members and guests of the Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Advances in Children, I asked my good friend and mentor, [...]

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No Best, Only Better Practices—Lessons from the Olympics

By Linda | February 22, 2010

Simplistically put, the current thinking on the healthcare overhaul enjoins us to “identify the “best” practices and just have everyone follow them.”
There are at least two major flaws with this concept. First, there are no best practices. There are only better practices, everyday.
Second, everyone is different. No two patients are going to [...]

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The Hall of Shame: Autism is Not Caused by Vaccinations!

By Linda | February 4, 2010

British Medical Journal, Lancet—Welcome to the Hall of Shame!
The foundation of medical knowledge is based on publications which are “peer-reviewed.” This is supposed to mean that several other experts in the field have read the scientific paper and then judged the information to be worthy of dissemination in a medical journal, allegedly for the [...]

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Free Danny from the System

By Linda | February 3, 2010

Danny comes into my office fairly frequently, usually with his father and one or more aides from the group “home” where he lives. He looks like a junior varsity football player with his padded shoulders, padded chest, his helmet and the multiple bruises he wears on his face, neck, arms and legs. A [...]

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Welcome to the Hall of Shame! SUNY Buffalo Committee for Academic Excellence

By Linda | December 22, 2009

Failure to promote based on gender discrimination is one of the hardest cases to prove. Janet Shucard, PhD, was denied promotion and tenure last year despite an outstanding record including substantial outside funding which completely paid her salary. (She received no salary from the university, which is another UB shameful secret.) Every [...]

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Our Women Senators To The Rescue?

By Linda | December 4, 2009

Last week we were left hanging with new and definitely not improved recommendations for breast cancer screening. This came from the non-governmental, governmental agency, (the newest member to the Brodsky Blog Hall of Shame), the US Preventative Task Force on Breast Cancer Screening. How much more governmental can you get?
Not much.
That is, until [...]

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