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April 15, 2010
Gender Discrimination In Medicine: One Doctor’s Charge Against SUNY AB
“I believe workplace discrimination still occurs on a daily basis even though there have been significant efforts to educate employers and managers about this issue; but it unfortunately continues to exist,” says employment lawyer John Rossi of Boston, MA.
If only Linda Brodsky had been taught that principle while in medical school, her life may have followed a very different course — and she may not have had to sue for claims of gender discrimination and equal-pay violations.
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October 03, 2012
Are These New Female Doctor Shows Realistic At All? We Asked Some Doctors
Dr. Linda Brodsky is the president and founder of Women MD Resources, an organization dedicated to creating a progressive healthcare workplace and improving the overall quality of patient care by improving the quality of life for women physicians. She gave us her thoughts on The Mindy Project and Emily Owens.
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September 29, 2012
Help Your Doctor Better Help You
Every physician has a different style or opening. I usually ask, “What brings you to see me?” Most of the time a coherent story will emerge with a little redirecting and further questioning.But sometimes (and more often lately) I am confronted with a variety of truly amazing responses.
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September 12, 2012
AN IMPROVED WORKPLACE MEANS IMPROVED PATIENT CARE
INTRODUCING: WOMEN MD RESOURCES
— Organization Launched To Revolutionize the Healthcare Workplace by Empowering The Physicians Who Comprise It —
Buffalo, NY (September 12, 2012) –While the larger public healthcare debate revolves around access and costs of care, there is a lesser-known, but no less important conversation broiling within the organizations themselves: how to attract and keep top women physicians who are demanding more equal opportunities and work-life flexibility than the system was designed to provide. This issue has emerged as a result of the changing face of the healthcare workforce; approximately half of medical school graduates are now women, and physicians’ lifestyle requirements as a whole have become increasingly diverse. Launching today, Women MD Resources (WMDR) believes that systemic updates will require greater emphasis on the needs of the individuals who comprise healthcare institutions, not on the institutions themselves.
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January 10, 2012
The New “Getting Ahead”: What It Takes to Succeed in 2012
There are many institutional problems that prevent women from advancing in the workplace, such as company culture, pay inequities, lack of career customization , and gender stereotyping. The first and most important step is for organizations and institutions to recognize that these problems exist and that they can be solved—but only with the buy-in of the board and administration, says Dr. Linda Brodsky, founder and president of Expediting the Inevitable, an organization that works with women physicians and healthcare organizations to create a more flexible workplace. “The structure of the workplace needs to be overhauled thoughtfully and methodically,” says Brodsky. “It is a top down/bottom up effort. They need to recognize that this situation hits their bottom line.”
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November 7, 2011
Dr. Linda Brodsky: 5 Major Issues With Physician Compensation
Linda Brodsky, MD, a pediatric otolaryngologist and founder of Expediting the Inevitable, shares five issues that specifically deal with physician compensation and why they are hot topics in today’s healthcare climate.
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November 4, 2011
Closing the Gender Gap in Medicine
Using her experience gained during the litigation as well as 25 years as a health care practitioner, Brodsky now tries to help women in the health care field overcome issues with pay inequity and gender discrimination as a founder of Expediting the Inevitable.
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