Monthly Archives: January 2009

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Ahead to the Past—The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act

By Linda | January 30, 2009

That’s Lilly, standing just to the left behind President Obama.

Hooray for Lilly Ledbetter! She is a woman of tremendous courage and fortitude. She showed her strength of character when she succeeded in a foreman’s job in a tire plant. And when she took on the Goodyear Tire company. And when she lost [...]

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Networking the Old Boys’ Way

By Linda | January 27, 2009

Last Tuesday, my husband and I visited four airports, took three planes, and spent 10 long hours travelling to one of his medical meetings. Our destination: Crested Butte, Colorado, “the last authentic ski town.” The meeting: the American Association of Pediatric Urologists (AAPU). My role: spouse and companion.
The AAPU was formed about 20 years ago [...]

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The News, Part II

By Linda | January 22, 2009

Any social scientist engaged in the research surrounding gender discrimination will tell you that it is a multi-factorial phenomenon.  As both a long time observer and proclaimed former victim of such discrimination, I have a unique perspective to bring sharp focus to the two major issues that require our attention.  First, we must get beyond [...]

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“I Read the News Today, Oh Boy!”

By Linda | January 21, 2009

Once again I find myself on an airplane, travelling to another medical meeting.  Only this time, it is not my medical meeting, but my husband’s.  And I am going as a spouse (another blog, another day). 
Traveling with my husband always means buying newspapers to read on the plane—the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal, [...]

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This Historical Moment

By Linda | January 19, 2009

Most drama in our own lives comes through our day to day, personal moments of triumph and tragedy. Yes, I will admit that the proliferation of media—multiple 24-hour all-news channels, TV drama, movies, and the world wide web—has given us the capabilities to engage in a wide variety of triumphs and tragedies. Does [...]

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Women of Valor—Lilly Ledbetter vs. Goodyear Tire Company

By Linda | January 16, 2009

Fighting a gender discrimination claim requires extraordinary strength and stamina.  Not to mention a lot of friends, family and financial support.  Surviving the multiple assaults on every aspect of your work and your personality can be devastating, if not impossible, which is why so many women do not bring forward their claims.  When they do, [...]

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Who’s the Patient?

By Linda | January 13, 2009

Most people assume that physicians who choose to work with kids actually like kids.  Now, kids can be terrific,  except when they are scared, crying, and irritable—just the way anyone would be if they were palpated, poked, and papoosed (wrapped up like a taco as we tell them to ease the worry) while being examined [...]

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A Day in the Life

By Linda | January 12, 2009

Would it be clichéd to say that some days my life resembles a three, no make that five, ring circus? I seem to move from ring to ring, often performing life defying acts, just to keep the show from dying.  It is emotionally and physically exhausting, and the mere memory, much less the aftermath, keeps [...]

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SENTAC, SALLY and ME—Part 2—December 2006

By Linda | January 7, 2009

SENTAC’s 33rd annual meeting was being held in San Diego, California in 2006.  Jet lag and long distance travel compressed into such a such a short amount of time make trips to the west coast (for barely 3 days) very difficult and to be undertaken only for the most important occasions.  Sally’s presidency qualified as [...]

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SENTAC, SALLY and ME—Part 1, Menace or Mentor?

By Linda | January 5, 2009

Medical meetings are distinct socio-anthropological phenomena.   Physicians, especially those in academic medicine, spend many weeks every year going to different meetings where the alleged purpose is to share the latest research and innovations with the other attendees.  And while a fair amount of scientific exchange does take place, the most exciting and perhaps enduring exchanges [...]

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