Episode 170: Emergency: Women in Medicine during Covid
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Dara Kass had always known emergency medicine was for her. She loved the excitement of the ER, the fact that she always had too much to do. It was only when she had a baby that she realized the emergency room, like so many other workplaces, wasn’t going to fit in with her - she was expected to fit in with it. She set out to change that for her and everyone else.
But when Covid-19 hit New York last spring, Dara was presented with challenges she could never have imagined - catching the virus herself, protecting her family, working through a relentless pandemic, and the loss of a colleague to suicide. She still wants to bring gender equity to emergency medicine. But she says workers’ mental health has to take priority now and as we emerge from this pandemic.
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| 0:44.8 | Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Ashley Milne Tight. |
| 0:51.2 | This time, bringing change for women in emergency medicine. |
| 0:58.1 | This pandemic year has taken a huge physical and mental toll on them and their colleagues. |
| 1:02.9 | My guest says the medical profession could do a lot to improve things. They can remove the stigma around needing mental health support so that physicians and other |
| 1:09.6 | healthcare workers can feel safe, not to think that |
| 1:13.3 | by seeking care and saving their own lives, they will also lose their careers. Coming up on the |
| 1:19.6 | broad experience. Before we begin, we're going to touch on a number of different topics in this show, |
| 1:33.9 | from gender equity in medicine to questions about the COVID vaccine. |
| 1:38.2 | But one of the things we're going to talk about is suicide, just to give you a heads up. |
| 1:45.1 | I met Dr. Darrakas on email about five years ago. |
| 1:49.7 | She got in touch to ask me to speak at a small event she was hoping to organize for women in |
| 1:54.0 | medicine. |
| 1:55.0 | And even though that didn't work out, and we never actually met, I kept following her work. |
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