@GLB______
I have made an effort to learn to “read the room”; words appropriate for one may not be so for another.
However, in fairness, usually “what do you want to be when you grow up?” is said in a friendly way, not disrespectfully.
But I get this starts to get into “banter zone”.
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there is a respectful way of asking a 29 year old doctor what her career ambitions are and it isn’t ‘what do you want to be when you grow up’
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@BaronLeSanj
to be fair Mr M, I do love the banter zone, got a lot of time for the banter zone, but it would be nice to not feel infantilised and belittled for a tiny little second, as it’s something I consistently experience as a woman in surgery ☹️
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@GLB______
I agree with you entirely.
Regrettably surgery has a real issue with this. It does need to stop; now!
I expect my trainees to behave like the adults they are, so I treat them as adults.
The clinical aspects of job are stressful enough without these add-ons.
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