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Don’t Call Me Lucky: on female physicians’ experiences of gender bias from patientsred ladybug in field of grass

Don’t Call Me Lucky: on female physicians’ experiences of gender bias from patients

Published by Jennifer Lycette, MD on October 26, 2018

update 9/30/2019 – Honorable mention, Online/Print Article, Writer’s Digest 88th Annual Writing Competition!   I recently came across an eye-opening passage on gender bias by the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The excerpt from her book is as follows: Theresa May is the British prime minister and here is how a progressive British newspaper described her husband:…

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Doctor title and gender. The Doctor is In; The Mrs. is Out: forms of address toward female physicians.woman doctor in surgical mask

Doctor title and gender. The Doctor is In; The Mrs. is Out: forms of address toward female physicians.

Published by Jennifer Lycette, MD on June 25, 2017

My smile freezes on my face as my patient says to me, “I’m so glad you’re back – that I get to see Mrs. Lycette today!” He has been my patient for several years, and I’m perplexed to hear him address me as “Mrs.” rather than “Doctor.”   At the same time, I really don’t think…

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