Monthly Archives: December 2009

A Bittersweet Christmas

By Linda | December 24, 2009

Unlike many doctors, my office hours can be very busy during the Christmas season. It’s also when the average patient age in the waiting room rises by about 10 years. Once small, fidgety children accompanied by their parents, they are now independent young adults. These college students return to check-in for their [...]

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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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Which Road to Equality?

By Linda | December 16, 2009

My husband sometimes sends me interesting pieces about women in medicine, gender discrimination, or, his favorite, gossip from the world of academic medical centers. The best source for this sort of thing is MedCenter Today, which touts itself as the “world’s leading independent source of business information for Academic MedCenter faculty!”
Today’s headlines: “Harvard Neurosurgeon, [...]

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Friends Help to Heal All Wounds

By Linda | December 10, 2009

Medical meetings have a structure, usually unique to the group. SENTAC’s is a long first day of scientific presentations, lectures and panels, followed by the annual banquet. Most of the time the banquet food is boring and tasteless, the company can be boring but usually not tasteless, and the speeches are definitely boring and [...]

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It’s Chilly in Utah

By Linda | December 8, 2009

Salt Lake City, Utah. Downtown Marriott Hotel. 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Advances in Women (SENTAC). December 4, 2009, 11:45 a.m.
The air was dry and very cold. That’s Utah. Makes for the great powder fancied in that skier’s haven. Not so great for a [...]

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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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