viernes, 1 de marzo de 2019

Time's Up sets its sights on health care

Morning Rounds
Megan Thielking
Good morning, folks! This is my last edition of Morning Rounds. Starting Monday, Shraddha Chakradhar will get you ahead of the day's news. There's a note from me at the end of this newsletter — but first, here's what you need to know about health and medicine today.

Time's Up sets its sights on health care

The Time's Up initiative is taking on sexual harassment and gender bias in a new industry: health care. The nonprofit just announced it's launching Time's Up Healthcare, with dozens of health care providers as founding members. I spoke with Dr. Jane van Dis, an OB-GYN and one of the founders, about the group's goals.
  • The mission: “Our goal is to create safe, dignified, and equitable environments for all women in health care. To me, those are achievable goals.”
  • The driving force: “All of us feel an obligation to fix our industry, not only for the health and welfare of women working in it, but also for our patients. ... We need to be the best qualified and healthy workforce in order to take the best care of the patients who present at our doorsteps for care.”
  • The call to action: “[Health care organizations should] implement changes, track those changes over time, and see whether your interventions are working. If they aren’t, you change things. [It’s] the same way we solve scientific problems.”
Read our conversation in full here. And for more on the NIH’s new efforts to address sexual harassment in science, read this.

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