My Day at the Public Health Clinic

November 27th, 2008 | Life

(I don’t talk about my professional life very much, and I don’t intend to make a start at it, but this is just too interesting to pass up.)

The other day I agreed to be a member of a panel discussion about various health care related goings-on at public health clinics in the state where I live.  The panel discussion was about the various information collection systems I design, but it was the meetings that I attended before this occurred that were most notable, including those on OB/GYN examination procedures, which involved both videos and/or demonstrations.

I was the only male in attendance in a crowd of about 80 people (me being the representative from the IT department).

I had two separate women come up to me and personally “apologize” for what I had seen, which was apparently something horrible.

I must’ve missed that part, because I had no idea what they were talking about.

4 comments

  • http://gardens.serveblog.net/ Thomas Mc.

    The only guy there. Why was that? Other then the topic of discussion, of course.

  • http://gardens.serveblog.net Thomas Mc.

    The only guy there. Why was that? Other then the topic of discussion, of course.

  • http://www.threshold-zero.com/ el capitan

    Who knows? Apparently, there’s just not a lot of men applying for the “Family Health Services” department. Or, they are and they’re not being hired.

    Either way, it’s a horrible double standard — FHS has a 99% female population, and no one says a thing, but if the IT department is over 75% male, everyone’s up in arms about “discrimination.”

  • http://www.threshold-zero.com el capitan

    Who knows? Apparently, there’s just not a lot of men applying for the “Family Health Services” department. Or, they are and they’re not being hired.

    Either way, it’s a horrible double standard — FHS has a 99% female population, and no one says a thing, but if the IT department is over 75% male, everyone’s up in arms about “discrimination.”

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