News Expert 456: Psychology
PsychologDr. Sibert is to be commended for her commitment to the practice of medicine, and for finding a work-life balance she feels was successful for her and her own family. However, I found the article a vast oversimplification of the issues it highlighted, simultaneously glossing over the difficulties and misplacing focus on an issue that beleaguers not only the modern medical workplace, but our society as a whole.Like Dr. Sibert, I am an anesthesiologist. Also like Dr. Sibert, I have children, and work full-time in a busy and high-acuity private practice. But as a woman in medicine, I find her views sexist, inflammatory, and frankly discouraging, and I can only hope she has not turned a crop of bright, young potential doctors away from the field entirely simply in her assessment that, to be truly worthy, a life of medicine must exist to the exclusion of all else. The face of medicine is changing, and the culture of medicine must change along with it.
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