While physicians’ negotiation skills and financial savvy play a role, leaders in academic medicine are on the hook for making sure that salary equity doesn’t sit with individual physicians.
Yet despite the struggles of caring for COVID-19 patients and managing their personal lives, many physicians make an effort to attend to their own well-being.
In this op-ed, Shruthi Mahalingaiah (SPH’15), a physician specializing in ovulation disorders, reproductive endocrinology, and infertility, writes about the prevalence of infertility and pregnancy complications facing female doctors and medical school students and what needs to be done to address the issue.
An analysis of over 1 million patients found a small but significant increase in adverse outcomes when female patients were operated on by a male surgeon compared to a female surgeon.