Thanks for this video. I have experienced several of these issues as a female medical student, and really appreciate you putting words to these problems. Also, about a year ago I clicked on one of your videos randomly, and it inspired me to spend some time with the anesthesia and cc department (combined specialty in this country), and after putting in a lot of time I’m looking forward to applying to specialize. Thanks for clueing me into this amazing world!
Thanks for watching and commenting. It's disappointing to hear that women physicians are facing similar issues globally, but I do believe that change is happening... albeit slowly. Keep pushing to make change so that our daughters can practice medicine in an an equitable environment!
thanks for uploading. this continues to be something that needs to be talked about more. a note on the "$2 million lifetime difference for men vs women" what a rabbit hole of nonsensical recursive statistical adjustments and slight of hand just to get to the original data that was cited in a major journal with actual MD's as the main authors instead of insurance policy lobbyists from California. If you follow the actual source from Cooney's 2021 article, it takes you to Whaley et al. (Health affairs, 2021) who doesn't actually describe the unadjusted data. That study is actually relying on statistical readjustments from Arnold et al. (reference #23, BMJ, 2020) funded by Rand OF COURSE, which itself is relying on statistical readjustments of Jena et al. (reference #16, JAMA, 2016). FINNALY A PAPER WITH ACTUAL UNADJUSTED DATA! in the OG paper the original conclusion was "the estimated adjusted salary among men exceeded that of women; this difference was statistically significant in 9 of 18 specialties. Surgical subspecialties demonstrated the largest absolute adjusted sex differences in salary" Jena et al. goes on to say "our use of Medicare reimbursements as a proxy for clinical revenue and effort would not apply well to fields such as pediatrics or obstetrics" , which ironically is exactly what the following two papers by Whaley, Arnold, et al. both go on to do in manor that exponentially increases the measured differences while ignoring the difference between MD vs DO, and sub specialties like cardiology vs "internal medicine". that's what happen when insurance company lobbyists write "academic papers" with private money. they really are just trying to turn us into "providers" or "PCP's" I think its pretty obvious there still exists major disparities, mostly in plastic/neurosurg/ortho, ect. but im finding it more and more equal among non surgical MD fields.
Thanks for this video. I have experienced several of these issues as a female medical student, and really appreciate you putting words to these problems. Also, about a year ago I clicked on one of your videos randomly, and it inspired me to spend some time with the anesthesia and cc department (combined specialty in this country), and after putting in a lot of time I’m looking forward to applying to specialize. Thanks for clueing me into this amazing world!
Thank You, this video is really helpful for me. In Poland we have same problem and I feel little less alone listening to You :(
Thanks for watching and commenting. It's disappointing to hear that women physicians are facing similar issues globally, but I do believe that change is happening... albeit slowly. Keep pushing to make change so that our daughters can practice medicine in an an equitable environment!
thanks for uploading. this continues to be something that needs to be talked about more.
a note on the "$2 million lifetime difference for men vs women"
what a rabbit hole of nonsensical recursive statistical adjustments and slight of hand just to get to the original data that was cited in a major journal with actual MD's as the main authors instead of insurance policy lobbyists from California.
If you follow the actual source from Cooney's 2021 article, it takes you to Whaley et al. (Health affairs, 2021) who doesn't actually describe the unadjusted data. That study is actually relying on statistical readjustments from Arnold et al. (reference #23, BMJ, 2020) funded by Rand OF COURSE, which itself is relying on statistical readjustments of Jena et al. (reference #16, JAMA, 2016). FINNALY A PAPER WITH ACTUAL UNADJUSTED DATA!
in the OG paper the original conclusion was "the estimated adjusted salary among men exceeded that of women; this difference was statistically significant in 9 of 18 specialties. Surgical subspecialties demonstrated the largest absolute adjusted sex differences in salary"
Jena et al. goes on to say "our use of Medicare reimbursements as a proxy for clinical revenue and effort would not apply well to fields such as pediatrics or obstetrics" , which ironically is exactly what the following two papers by Whaley, Arnold, et al. both go on to do in manor that exponentially increases the measured differences while ignoring the difference between MD vs DO, and sub specialties like cardiology vs "internal medicine".
that's what happen when insurance company lobbyists write "academic papers" with private money. they really are just trying to turn us into "providers" or "PCP's"
I think its pretty obvious there still exists major disparities, mostly in plastic/neurosurg/ortho, ect. but im finding it more and more equal among non surgical MD fields.