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MEDICAL WOMANVOLUME 35: ISSUE 2 AUTUMN/WINTER 2016 SEXISM IN MEDICINE JUST HOW COMMON IS IT? INSPIRATION! ARE YOU SITTING LIFE BEYOND COMFORTABLY? MEDICINE Create your HAPPY TEAMS signature work Celebrities give outfit: The Amanda their top tips Wakeley Way www.medicalwomensfederation.org.uk Contributors Contents Contributors AUTUMN 2016 Medical Woman, produced by the Medical Women’s Federation Dr Dawn Harper Dr Fiona Godlee Editor-in-Chief: A medical woman you A medical woman you Miss Jyoti Shah ([email protected]) admire or respect: admire or respect: Elizabeth Blackwell. She really paved Professor Averil Mansfield for Editorial Assistants: the way for women in medicine being delightful, brave, funny, Ms Anji Thomas in this country & didn’t let anyone lovely, self-deprecating & having Miss Sarah McLoughlin dissuade her. We could all learn a lot achieved so much. She has really from her dedication & determination paved the way for others Your five favourite things: Your five favourite things: MEDICAL WOMEN’S FEDERATION • Kindness • Swimming in the sea Tavistock House North, Tavistock Square, Dr Dawn Harper • Humour • Spending time in my Dr. Fiona Godlee London WC1H 9HX • Friends beach cabin in Dorset Tel: 020 7387 7765 • Family • Family time E-mail: [email protected] • My dog • Reading, especially literary biographies • Work www.medicalwomensfederation.org.uk @medicalwomenuk News and Events 5 Medical Memoirs 32 www.facebook.com/MedWomen Amanda Wakeley Tess Gerritsen Patron: Charity Spotlight 6 Remote & Rural 35 Your five favourite things: A medical woman you • Family, including my partner admire or respect: HRH The Duchess of Gloucester GCVO • Being in the elements – water Virginia Apgar for being a doctor My Needlestick Injury Journey 8 The Other Side: Doctors as Patients 36 President: skiing, country, by the sea as well a musician, & even making • Nature instruments Professor Parveen Kumar CBE • My dog Your five favourite things: Women at the Top 9 Taboo Topic: Whistleblowing 38 • Beauty President-Elect: • Food Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones • Travel Beyond Medicine 10-29 Women at Work – The Balancing Act 40 • My grandchild Vice-President: • My garden Amanda Wakeley Tess Gerritsen Dr Olwen Williams OBE • My family, especially my husband Spring Conference Review 21 WHO Report 42 Honorary Secretary: Dr Clare Gerada MBE Spring Conference 2016 22-23 Celebrity Wall of Wisdom 43 Honorary Treasurer: Dr Heidi Mounsey Spring Conference Dinner 24 Book Review 44 Dr Catherine Dr Sonia Swart Design & Production: Calderwood A medical woman you A medical woman you admire or respect: The Magazine Production Company Twitter Tips 30 Obituary 44 admire or respect: Dame Carol Black for managing www.magazineproduction.com Dame Hilda Rose who was the to excel as a clinician, as a medical Dressing Professional Women 31 Dr Iona Frock 45 first female president of the leader & for her focus on the Royal College of Obstetricians value of employment & Gynaecologists. She showed Your five favourite things: tremendous perseverance • Spending time with my family Medical Woman: © All rights reserved. Dr Catherine Calderwood Your five favourite things: • Home design Dr Sonia Swart No part of this publication may be reproduced • Spending time with my children • Arranging flowers & gardens or transmitted in any form or by any means • Cycling, running, swimming • Listening to music, especially without the prior written consent of the • Dinner with friends when my children are playing it Publisher. A reprint service is available. Great care • Talking to doctors about now & the future • Short breaks in beautiful places is taken to ensure accuracy in the preparation • My new standing desk of this publication, but Medical Woman cannot be held responsible for its content. The views expressed are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the Publisher. This issue’s cover photo & central pull-out feature by Paresh Solanki www.psview.media www.medicalwomensfederation.org.uk 1 Contributors Contributors Contributors cont’d Contributors cont’d Dr Susan Kersley Ann Maxwell Dr Karen Morton Dr Kim Holt A medical woman you A medical woman you A medical woman you A medical woman you admire or respect: admire or respect: admire or respect: admire or respect: Dr Sarah Jarvis, BBC Radio doctor: Professor Helen Cross, The Prince of Dame Carol Black. She got into Drs Francesca Silman & she gives down to earth advice, Wales’ Chair of Childhood Epilepsy medicine via a third class Nadia Masood, both of Justice has an amazing knowledge for her commitment to childhood history degree. Her ethos of the for Health, for their campaigning of all things medical & epilepsy, her determination to importance of work, & her against the imposition of the beautiful blue eyes improve outcomes & her relentless & changing of the ‘Sick note’ into a junior doctor contract abounding energy that enables her ‘Fitness to work note’ fits well Your five favourite things: to give so much with my own view on life Your five favourite things: • My three grandchildren • Spending time with my Dr Susan Kersley • Walking on the cliffs in Cornwall Your five favourite things: Mrs Ann Maxwell Dr Karen Morton Your five favourite things: children & grandson Dr Kim Holt • Painting abstract pictures • My husband & three sons • Being outdoors, preferably • Theatre – especially in London • Yoga • My home in Scotland & in France on my bike or hitting a golf ball (last amazing experience was • Sunshine • Entertaining friends & family • Chocolate Jesus Christ superstar in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) • Seeing the world through travel • Live music of all sorts • I love yoga • I have an absolute passion for fashion • Skiing • Walking on a beach or in the hills • My work • Venice Dr Hannah Gaston Dr Hannah Aldean A medical woman you A medical woman you admire or respect: admire or respect: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson who My mother, who was a specialist pioneered medical training for nurse in the NHS for many, many women, courageously & effectively. years, who managed work, JOIN US! JOIN US! JOIN US! Also because she founded (with six children, several moves around others) the Royal Free Medical the country & a surgeon as School, where I trained a husband! You can now pay for membership Your five favourite things: Your five favourite things: and events on the MWF website! • Babies (especially my newest • Chickpeas (I couldn’t really start Dr Hannah Gaston Dr Hannah Aldean seven-month old grandson) this list with red wine) So, what are you waiting for? • Children (my three older grandchildren • Lie-ins (sadly a rarity) & my own grown-up children) • Etymology (especially of the Pass this magazine onto • Reading (anything, English language) your friends, family and work anywhere & everywhere) • Scary movies (it’s a love/hate thing!) • Sewing • Football (if only the United team of 1998 would come back…) colleagues, it’s about time they • Sitting at the seaside took advantage of what MWF has to offer. Dr Rebecca Viney Karen Webster A medical woman you A medical woman you WHAT YOU GET FOR YOUR MEMBERSHIP FEES: admire or respect: admire or respect: Naureen Bhatti who is gentle but My line manager, Fiona, who MEDICAL WOMAN strong, kind but fair, a quiet leader demonstrated extraordinary team Our in-house magazine is issued twice a year in both paper and online formats. who leans in. She sees the bigger management skills in supporting picture, reflects & innovates. us in our frenetic caseloads. GRANTS, PRIZES AND BURSARIES Teams & organisations thrive under As a result, I have always tried to for both students and junior doctors. her leadership. The NHS is safer demonstrate a similar approach & better for having her – a to my teams. I believe we are too SUPPORT WITH AWARDS Dr Rebecca Viney Karen Webster role model to watch as she ascends often quick to criticise but don’t We are a nominating body for ACCEA and give support with individual applications from women. We Your five favourite things: praise or acknowledge good also nominate medical women for the Women in the City Award and the Woman of Achievement Award. practice readily enough • I am a home maker & love to cook NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES • Sharing art & music, especially opera with friends Your five favourite things: • Watching people I know fulfil their potential • Family & friends We hold small networking events in our local groups and hold two national conferences a year. & do things they never imagined they could • Chocolate • Enabling the NHS to really value its workforce • Wine (to be shared with the family & friends) Become a member at: & thereby get the best out of people • Exercise (to combat the effects of the chocolate & wine!) • Getting people together to enable collaboration & partnership • Holidays (preferably to action-filled destinations www.medicalwomensfederation.org.uk as I don’t like to sit still for very long) 2 Medical Woman | Autumn 2016 www.medicalwomensfederation.org.uk 3 Editor’s Letter News & Events Background to MWF The Medical Women’s Federation – Editor’s Letter Working for women’s health and women NEWS & EVENTS doctors since 1917. Swansea ‘Training as a Doctor with a Family’ Event, June 2016 The Medical Women’s Federation (MWF) was Dr Carol Sullivan, MWF Wales Chair t has been a rollercoaster summer of marvellous sporting successes and the founded in 1917 and is today the largest and most influential body of women doctors in Following the success of last year’s medical students’ evening, the Wales occasional failure. All this in the midst of Brexit which has caused universal MWF chair, Carol Sullivan and Junior Doctor Rep, Dr Shabeena Webster the UK. unease and even a kerfuffle by inadvertently parachuting our second ever arranged for a meeting on 22nd June at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, female Prime Minister into Number 10. Once again, the seductive subject The MWF aims to: entitled ‘Training as a doctor with a family’.