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The diagnosis of FND can be made accurately based on positive clinical signs. Nevertheless, people with FND continue to suffer from discrimination across the spectra of clinical and research medicine. This review presents the evidence and outlines the causes of discrimination and suggests solutions.

There is excellent news in the upcoming Medscape Female Physician Compensation Report for 2022. Female primary care and specialist physicians had pay increases of 8.1% and 8.5% from the prior year, respectively. This has resulted in a 2% reduction in the pay difference between men and women in both situations. Despite the fact that this is progress, there is still a huge 25% disparity in primary care and 31% in specialties, with female doctors underrepresented in the higher paying specialties.

In the first half of 2020, only 36% of the three million submissions to top health and medical journals came from women. The gender difference was most prominent among younger cohorts of female authors who were just starting their careers and applied to both research and non-research papers across all authorship positions in both top-tier and lower-impact journals. The damage to women’s research productivity, particularly for those in their early careers, was immediate amid the enormous, quick publication of covid papers. According to research, women’s publication production fell by 15% in 2020 compared to 2019, and by comparison to men, it was 24% lower. A growing gender disparity was substantiated by an analysis of nearly 500,000 authors in the fields of basic medicine, biology, chemistry, and clinical medicine, demonstrating that the early disadvantage women faced in terms of recognition and career advancement was both real and lasting.

In an analysis of electronic messages from patients, women physicians, DOs, and PCPs are twice as likely as other physicians to be referred to by their first name instead of as “doctor.” Is it acceptable? Is it good for the relationship? What are the best responses for institutions and individual practitioners?

An update of Simone’s Maxims that include the lived experiences of medical professionals who identify as women, under-represented groups in medicine (UrIM), or who have several underrepresented identities and who face many hurdles in academic medicine is necessary in light of the realities of contemporary medicine.

‘Bikini medicine’ (see the Boston Globe article) is an outdated, sexist idea that men and women should be cared for similarly — dubbed as such due to the mistaken belief that women’s health only differs in the parts of women that bikinis cover. A ridiculous notion, considering that cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and autoimmune diseases affect women differently than men. Last time we checked, the bikini doesn’t cover any of them.