After many years of feeling frustrated about gender inequity and harassment in healthcare, I decided to do something about it. My advocacy in the age of social media has been a surprising and exhilarating journey, and led me to believe that even the most ordinary person, when activated around a cause, can have impact.
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Gender Equality in Healthcare: Stepping up when you need to ‘attend’ to your cause
1. Stepping Up: When It
is Time to “Attend” to
Your Cause
ESTHER K. CHOO, MD MPH
SMACC 2019
6. Don Berwick:
“To try to avoid the political fray
through silence is impossible,
because silence is now political.
Either engage, or assist the harm.
There is no third choice.”
12. Michelle Obama:
“You will not always be able
to solve all of the world's
problems at once
but don't ever
underestimate the
importance you can have
because history has shown us
that courage can be
contagious and hope can
take on a life of its own.”
Notas del editor
8:30 am
-Esther on Stepping up: when you need to ‘attend’ to your cause (10 mins)
-Rob on Identifying a need: when your city needs Kings Against Violence (10 mins)
-Hugh on Framing the issue: when climate change is a medical emergency (10 mins)
-Mulinda on Being flexible: when building EM becomes improving primary care (10 mins)
-Brian on Engaging with government: when "life is more than a heartbeat" (10 mins)
-PANEL Panel discussion & question time (30 mins)
This kind of advocacy – easy, comfortable advocacy – not operating at the top of your capacity
May 4, 2017: my inflection point as an advocate
And so out I went
Started with this
Dec 5, 2017
“It is chilling to see the great institutions of health care….assume that the seat of bystander is available. That seat is gone...
Kept going
And now this – the wild adventure begins
In about six months, operating with a volunteer workforce, we brought together 65 women as founders and advisors, 8 signatory healthcare institutions, and 6 major partnerships, including with a labor union representing healthcare workers.
3. It’s about the work, not you in the work.
My 2 messages:
1. You have everything you need to be an advocate