A new study from the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery came out recently and let's just say… it wasn't received well. The study ...

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Would You Trust A Doctor Dressed Like This?

dr chaudhary md if you were true he for she then you must speak up against this disturbing study three men created fake social media accounts to purposefully spy on applicants worse they are shaming our women physician colleagues for wearing bikinis med twitter med bikini retraction this is a study we got to talk about on this week's wednesday checkup there was a study published late last year that wanted to take a look at the unprofessional behavior or the potential on professional behavior on social media by young vascular doctors so what they did was they compiled a list of recently trained vascular surgeons specifically young ones they scoured their social media profiles facebook instagram twitter interestingly they had three male individuals do this scouring which kind of creates a bias but we'll discuss that in a bit and what they found was about 25 of these young doctors that they looked at had quote unquote potentially unprofessional behavior or clearly unprofessional behavior and the reason i point out these two definitions is because it's going to make a big big difference as to the utility honesty integrity everything about this study let's define those terms the study defines clearly unprofessional content as health insurance portability accountability act violations that's hipaa violations patient privacy violations intoxicated appearance unlawful behavior possession of drugs or drug paraphernalia and uncensored profanity or offensive comments about colleagues work or patience i think you and i will both agree that's clearly unprofessional behavior shouldn't talk bad about your patients or colleagues you shouldn't be doing illegal acts or drugs or anything like that and your patient's privacy is of utmost importance does not belong anywhere on social media all of these make sense but they had to include this list of potentially unprofessional pieces of content and the way that they define potentially unprofessional content is as follows holding or consuming alcohol inappropriate attire censored profanity controversial political or religious comments and controversial social topics this definition is what completely delegitimizes this study had they only include the clearly unprofessional content great people would have benefited from the study they would have applauded it but instead they've included this subjective heavily heavily biased portion of potentially unprofessional content and destroyed this article i mean it's full of subjective cognitive even gender bias some may even go as far as calling it sexist and i really do support them on that doctors are humans too the more patients see us as humans too the more likely they are to trust us the better we can communicate the more likely we're to have better health outcomes for them this elitist super professional version of doctors needs to disappear and studies like this that perpetuate this elitist notion really do us a major disservice in fact there were so many of my colleagues that were upset by this study that there was a trending twitter hashtag called med bikini with many of my colleagues posing in their beachwear which is a totally appropriate thing to do doctors are humans humans like having fun they like going to the beach humans that are of age that are off duty can have a glass of wine and take a picture with it and shouldn't be afraid to do so in fact i'm partially part of the problem i remember when i was going out i'm not going out as often anymore but if i was to take a picture with someone and i'm holding a glass of wine i would try and do my best to hide it because i was worried people would judge me we need to become more relatable really lean into showing our lives on social media you don't have to do it but if you want to there should be no program directors or scientific researchers stopping you from doing that and then to say doctors shouldn't be commenting on controversial social topics you want to exclude doctors healthcare professionals on the topics of gun control and abortion these are some of the topics where a healthcare voice is of utmost importance as i look through twitter in the midst of conversations on controversial social topics i wish there were more health care voices there i wish there was more health care literacy and accuracy in these conversations just in the last year of this channel we've talked about racial gender bias reopening of schools political misinformation fat phobia and even the recent black lives matter protests as a physician social media communicator influencer i take my role here seriously i do my research i want to put out accurate info surrounding these controversial topics so that individuals like yourself can make the best decisions for yourself and your family members to say that i'm acting unprofessional by doing this i don't even know where that's coming from this is one of the most shared stories of med bikini the username of this doctor on instagram is dr candy cerfieval surf vival it's witty her real name here is listed as dr candice meyer hope i'm pronouncing that right she shares an anecdote a really powerful anecdote along with some pictures let's read along together dr bikini will save your life in the middle of the ocean when you get hit by a boat i will take you out of the ocean on a surfboard turn into a backboard tie off your exsanguinating wound bleeding out with my rash guard take you to my under equipped urgent care stabilize you in one hour with an iv oxygen morphine fluids foley and put your open femur fracture in bucks traction fly you by helicopter to a local hospital order and interpret all the labs x-ray ct scans suture staple all of your wounds splint your clavicle slash humerus and scapula fractures sedate you put a chest tube in your five rib fractured hemo pneumothorax that's blood and air in your chest and fly you by jet to a specialty hospital in another country all in my you guessed it i am an emergency medicine physician standing in solidarity with my female vascular surgeons today newsflash female doctors can wear whatever they want and i agree i want the authors of that study to look at this photo of a doctor saving a life in a bikini and to say that this is unprofessional come on we have to be realistic we have to learn from these opportunities and understand that sometimes our cognitive biases really blind us to the truth i'm really encouraged and proud even of dr meyer for leading by example using this anecdote to teach us about the fact that we should look further than what a person is wearing or what they're drinking to determine whether or not they're professional in fact that term unprofessional has been thrown around in my life so often i mean when i started my social media in medical school people told me that i should delete it because it was unprofessional for doctors to take selfies it was unprofessional for me to take pictures in the gym or with my family or at the beach i didn't want to argue with those people i didn't think that argument would go very far i thought that if i believed in my message to become more relatable as a family medicine physician to my patients that i would create a healthier conversation a more inclusive conversation and now having the youtube channel nearly at six million subscribers which by the way i owe you a huge thank you for patients who have never seen me before who haven't seen a doctor before were scared to are now coming in getting cancer checks they're getting their vaccines because they've learned the risk versus benefit conversation patients now know the difference between good research and bad research from watching my channel and in my office i see this happening day in and day out and just to give you a final update on this story the study was officially retracted it was pulled it is no longer a valid study in this journal and the editor's statement here's a little highlight reads as such although the editors of the jvs believe that the authors of this paper were attempting to advise young vascular surgeons about the risks of social media the review process failed to identify the errors in the design of the study with regards to conscious and unconscious bias and thus the published paper was interpreted as broadening inequities in surgery the editors therefore decided there was sufficient rationale to retract the article and i completely agree i think if you're part of a legitimate medical society and you want to talk about social media from a research standpoint please go ahead and talk to some experienced social media physicians there's so many of them in fact i had a hundred of them on my channel talking about what it's like to be doctors both in person and online so check out this video here or check out my conversation here with dr fauci on covet 19. you

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