Ten Eleven Things Not to Say to Your Female Colleagues

Borrero-Mejias, Clarimar; Starling, Amaal J.; Burch, Rebecca; Loder, Elizabeth

doi:10.1111/head.13647

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“…Migraine Mavens is a private Facebook group of female headache and migraine-related HCPs and scientists based primarily in North America. 3 It was founded in November 2017. As of April 2020, it had 165 members.…”

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“…During the discussion and editorial process, the authors agreed to add an 11 th vignette that reflected the importance of recognizing the humanity and vulnerability of HCPs, and strategies to enhance their resilience. 3 Some of these scenarios have occurred in clinical settings, while others have occurred in the community. Therefore, some recommendations may be more appropriate for HCPs, administrators, or the general public.…”

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“…2,15 In addition to sharing stories of struggle and hardship, we present constructive and affirmative statements to say to HCPs during the COVID-19 pandemic, following the structure of our previous publication. 3…”

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Ten Eleven Things Not to Say to Healthcare Professionals During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

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On March 11, 2020, the infection caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) virus was declared a pandemic. Throughout this pandemic, healthcare professionals (HCPs) have experienced difficulties stemming from poor communications, resource scarcity, lack of transparency, disbelief, and threats to the safety of their loved ones, their patients, and themselves. As part of these hardships, negative statements have been heard repeatedly. This paper describes 11 scenarios of unhelpful and dysfunctional messages heard by the authors and their colleagues during the COVID‐19 pandemic, reported to us by a combination of peers, administrative leadership, and the public. We explain why not to use such messaging, and we suggest more helpful and compassionate expressions based upon recommendations published by scientific organizations and well‐established psychological principles. The first 10 scenarios discussed include (1) lack of understanding regarding the extent of the pandemic; (2) shaming over not seeing patients in person; (3) lack of clear and consistent communication from leadership on pandemic‐related practice changes; (4) opinions that personal protective equipment (PPE) use by HCPs causes fear or is unnecessary; (5) forcing in‐person care without appropriate PPE; (6) the risk of exposure to asymptomatic individuals as it relates to opening clinics; (7) media gag orders; (8) pay and benefit reductions; (9) spreading of misinformation about the COVID‐19 pandemic; and (10) workload expectations. The 11th scenario addresses HCPs’ psychological and physical reactions to this challenging and prolonged stressful situation. We close by discussing the need for support and compassion at this difficult and unpredictable time and by offering suggestions to foster resilience and feelings of self‐efficacy among HCPs.

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“…Clarimar Borrero‐Mejias MD, Amaal J. Starling MD, Rebecca Burch MD, Elizabeth Loder MD, MPH, On behalf of the Migraine Mavens Writing Consortium 1 …”

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“…9 For example, underrepresentation of women at a neuroimmunology conference was not explained by quantity or impact of previous publications, 28 and evaluation scores for the Society for Hospital Medicine's Annual Meeting have increased as the proportion of women speakers has increased, suggesting that the presence of women presenters was associated with better presentations. To address concerns about how diversity and inclusion efforts may influence the quality of speakers and authors, 29 objective criteria could be developed in advance of a selection process and candidates should be held to the same standard. 30 The use of objective evaluation criteria in the selection of conference speakers has also been associated with increasing the proportion of women conference speakers.…”

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