Thread by @DrJaneMunro

Last night after watching a group of my medical peers behaving really badly toward each other in a meeting, I did something different. I didn't really know many of them. They we're mostly much older and male. I stood up & called it out.

That was actually pretty hard to do even for confident, bolshe me. It's stops here, I said. Behave better. It's 2019 & we can interact respectfully. You know what? They did! And the worst behaved each came up after and apologised at the end of the meeting. Change can happen.

Don't walk past bad behaviour. Especially if you're in a relative position of authority.
We have some entrenched cultural issues and we need to shine light in the dark places of medicine.

But on the night several doctors had left. Several were clearly frustrated or upset by the interactions. And I really think it was impressive the immediate uplift and mood change & really significant shift & immediate response to civility. I was impressed.