Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 6.24
- Why we need part-time, and women, and doctors – A response to the NYT piece asserting that women doctors are ruining medicine. From Buzz Parsec.
- North Carolina considers paying forced sterilization victims – “Barely 40 years ago, it wasn’t uncommon for a single mother on welfare, or a patient in a mental hospital in North Carolina, to be sterilized against her will.”
- Multicellular life arises in test tube -“Since humanity missed the big moment the first time around, biologists trying to understand the origins of complex life have coaxed single-celled microbes to evolve into multicellular forms capable of reproduction.” From Mark.
- Exasperated ancient Egyptian -Some ancient astronaut theorists have earned themselves some enemies.
- Cute Animal Friday! Puppy gets four prosthetic legs and can now play fetch. Nowoo brings us El Willy, the tiniest flamenco dancer. And Elyse being Elyse, she wants you to see this cute wet beaver, taking a bath.
We are in great need of part-time and women Doctors in Australia too. I live in a rural district and it is just too many hours for one or two persons.
We are in the process of asking our migrant Doctors to come to the Bush and experience country Aussie life .. we would be so grateful. So far we’ve had Nigerian, Indian, Kenyan, Iraqi doctors do short stints…but they all want to go where the big money specialties are in Melbourne or Sydney. Pity, cos they are excellent.
Love Elyse’s wet beaver vid.. look’s like he’s really enjoying that wash.
This is an odd argument to make.
Women should process more patients faster and work longer hours because productivity matter more than outcome?
Their patients would not agree.