Physician Just Equity
championing a balanced resolution
WE TOO HAVE EXPERIENCED INEQUITY
NOW WE ARE MOTIVATED TO MITIGATE INJUSTICES THROUGH OUR COLLECTIVE WISDOM
We uphold our ethical duty TO OUR PATIENTS AND COLLEAGUES FIRST
We are a spectrum of genders, orientations, colors, Races & religions
WE ARE PJE AND WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED
- Physicians experience bias, microaggressions, harassment and discrimination. These abusive behaviors are often related to gender, race and/or a professional ethical obligation to do what is right for patients rather than the establishment.
- These injustices perpetuate inequitable opportunities and successes by adversely impacting workplace dynamics culminating in wrongful and detrimental employment decisions at every stage of career development.
- The result is often harm to the physician’s self-esteem, well-being, health and career, interfering with both the continuity and quality of patient care.
- Physician Just Equity was established to provide peer-support for physicians and surgeons navigating workplace conflicts, while also advocating for optimal patient care and necessary institutional change.
PJE Is Here to Help
Tools
To increase your knowledge of definitions, statistics, and narratives that describe a culture fraught with inequity and abuse.
Services
Consultation, advocacy, and education to empower you to take action that honors your goals and rights.
ENGAGEMENT
Take advantage of opportunities to participate, collaborate, and join the movement!
IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS AN
EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION
BEING YOU and BEING AN UPSTANDER should not warrant inequitable treatment, retaliation and subsequent job insecurity, yet this is a pattern.
PHYSICIAN INEQUITY DUE TO GENDER OR SEX DIFFERENCES
Women medical school faculty surveyed in 2000 reported an increase in rate of discrimination from 47% in early career to 70% in mid career.
In 2018, full-time women surgeons earned approximately $75,000 less annually than full-time men surgeons.
In 2019, 29% of surgical residents reported sexual harassment during training, with the perpetrator being supervising surgeons the majority of the time.
The Current Status of Women in Surgery; How to Affect the Future
PHYSICIAN INEQUITY DUE TO RACE/ETHNICITY OR CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
"[U]nderrepresented physicians … are often forced to devote substantial effort to contending with bias in their workplace."
Cultural Complications; A Novel Strategy to Build a More Inclusive Culture
"Although microaggressions occur on individual and interpersonal levels, macroaggressions occur on institutional or systemic levels and manifest as biased or discriminatory policies, governance, and other practices that disproportionately benefit one group over another."
Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Microaggressions in Medicine
PHYSICIAN INEQUALITY & RETALIATION FOR SPEAKING UP
“[A]ccording to clinicians and advocates, physicians who voice concern about patient care routinely face institutional retaliation.”
US Physician Whistleblowers Face Intimidation and Retaliation
“[B]ad faith decisions by hospitals constitute improper punishment of physicians for standing up for the quality of medical care.”
"Many doctors were silent at Stafford for fear of reprisal, according to a 2009 review by the Department of Health. Sadly, their fears are valid."
