Female doctors complain about this problem all of the time. I just was never aware that I had bought into the stereotype, until this past Tuesday.
After watching a laparoscopic procedure, I was standing around in the pre-op area waiting to meet my next patient. While waiting, a lady in scrubs and a poofy hair net started chatting me up. She mentioned that she had seen me in the previous operation and asked me if I was gonna go in for the next case. I described in great detail how bored out of my mind I was in the previous case and that I kept falling asleep as I was leaning against the wall. Then I finally got around to introducing myself. I looked for her nametag to get her name right. She had a white strip...shit. That means resident, not nurse. She was actually the chief resident who was performing the surgeries. yea...it was awkward scrubbing into the next case with her.
-bender
ouch.
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