Monthly Archives: June 2009

Where The Girls Are (or Ought to Be), Day 1

By Linda | June 29, 2009

Saturday, June 27, 2009. The taxi pulled up to the hotel, the Renaissance Grand Hotel and Suites. From the looks of the driveway, not much seemed to be happening. No long lines at registration. The Capri restaurant directly in view on the lower level, courtesy of the sunlit open atrium look so trendy in hotels [...]

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The Struggle for Gender Equity at UB

By Linda | June 26, 2009

After 10 grueling hours of surgery yesterday, mostly done under the bright light of an operating microscope, I didn’t think I would be able to stay up and think straight enough to post a blog today. But when I received this report from the Ad Hoc Committee on Gender Equity, I was revived enough to [...]

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Little Did I Know

By Linda | June 24, 2009

When I looked at my surgical schedule for the day, I would not have imagined that I would have so many challenges or reap so many rewards beyond the usual satisfaction of caring for the patient and family. My list was long and looked challenging due to the many airway examinations that had to be [...]

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The Global Gender Gap, Part 3

By Linda | June 19, 2009

Five reasons why The Global Gender Gap Report is a must read for everyone!

A well respected group of non-politically aligned international business leaders, scholars and policy-makers have come out and unequivocally stated that a global gender gap exists.
This gap is unhealthy for economic growth and development and should be eliminated. (One excellent chart shows a [...]

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The Global Gender Gap, Part 2

By Linda | June 18, 2009

Gender politics, healthcare, and global economic competitiveness. Yes, they are all inter-related. And if you think I am out of my mind, I would humbly direct your attention to several interesting and informative reports courtesy of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Network –The 2008 Global Competitiveness Report and one of the supporting derivative studies, [...]

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The Global Gender Gap, Part 1

By Linda | June 16, 2009

I had never heard of the World Economic Forum until someone brought to my attention a report entitled the “Global Gender Gap Report.” Only after I hit the print button did I bother to look to see that 172 pages of tables and figures in color would soon be spit out from my printer, that [...]

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Flag Day—What Flag Do You Wave?

By Linda | June 15, 2009

Yesterday was Flag Day. Not one of the more well known holidays, but just another reminder of our unique history and shared values as Americans. Some of that history makes us proud, like D-Day, the Marshall Plan, and the Civil War. And some of it makes us less proud, although put into an historical context, [...]

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Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

By Linda | June 8, 2009

The time is here. I am finally ready to begin. I am so excited to announce the official start of my new book project! The subject: How the Gender Gap Is Unhealthy for Healthcare in America. This is a public health issue of the utmost importance. Your stories need to be told.
This should not come [...]

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Before and After, Part 2

By Linda | June 4, 2009

Children with Velo-cardio-facial syndrome (VCF) often have learning difficulties and speech problems. Johanna decided that Katie’s VCF was not going to hold her back. Katie’s speech is somewhat hypernasal (air leaks through the nose due to an absence or defect in one of the muscles of the palate or roof of the mouth.) When you [...]

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Before and After, Part 1

By Linda | June 2, 2009

In today’s crazy world of image re-creation, we are bombarded with the faces, the figures and the photographs of those such as “The Biggest Loser” holding his pants out three feet in front of him. Or of the woman who has subjected herself to multiple surgeries for the “Extreme Makeover”. Dramatic “before and after” photographs [...]

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