Re: TGIF Maternity Leave in Residency

From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@gmail.com)
Sat Feb 28 09:58:20 2009


The year we had all those pregnancies in our residency (January - July 1985) the head of the surgery program was doing his little speech at the end of the year luncheon they had for the residents ... and made the comment:

"I guess we didn't work _____ hard enough when she was on our service, since she got pregnant." When NO ONE laughed - he realized what a horrible comment it was. Then he said, "Well - I guess it doesn't really take that much time since my wife had 4 babies in the 5 years of my surgical residency and I was on call every other night."

Either way - both comments were WAY out of line.

And even when residents were housed in the hospital and not supposed to have wives and so forth - plenty had ways of slipping out of the hospital and so forth.

Joanne

At Fri, 27 Feb 2009, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: >
>In a message dated 2/26/09 8:32:08 PM, ainsron@sbcglobal.net writes:
>
>> I would expect each residency program to have its own policies.  Wasn't an
>> issue in our day because there weren't any.
>>
>Yeah, back then residents didn't have sex.
>
>Joe P.
>

--
Joanne Bulley, MD
solo gyn
Keene, NH




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