A 🧵- So yesterday on my flight there was a medical emergency involving a passenger in the seat right in front of me. I immediately jump up (I’m a family medicine PA) as did the woman behind me (internal medicine physician) and sprang into action. 1/6
We are assessing, communicating with each other, the patient’s partner, and the flight crew when all of a sudden a man rushes up from the back, pushes me out the way (a literal shove), and interrupts the woman physician mid-sentence and announces he is a surgeon 2/6
Y’all, the woman physician and I share an understanding glance in that moment, because we both felt the cut of microaggressions that had just occurred. There was reference to her as a nurse (not MD) and to me that help had arrived. 3/6
Mind you, help was already there and doing a darn good job. The flight crew let him know that WE indeed had the situation under control and he left without an acknowledgement of what he just did, because he wasn’t even aware of the harm he caused. 4/6
And, before you ask. Yes, he was! The end result was great with the patient though and she thanked us profusely. It’s just even in this moment to some, I definitely couldn’t be a healthcare provider in my travel clothes and hat to the back. 5/6
It also behooved people to recognize the woman as a physician. Wild story huh?! 6/6 #equity #genderparity #PAMedTwitter #MedTwitter
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