2023-10-23 23:10:27
Previously, when someone in Mexico required medical attention, de facto, they imagined the arrival of a man in a white coat; In 2023 the situation is different, since women have claimed spaces in medicine, where, in addition, they always stand out.
“More women are currently entering medical schools, more women are performing surgical specialties that in previous times were the exclusive practice of men,” the specialist in internal medicine and hematology, Irma Leticia Barrios Hernández, told EL SOL DE TAMPICO.
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Discrimination still exists, although it is considerably less than what female doctors and medical students faced two decades ago.
“There was a restriction on women to occupy high-level management positions, commenting with colleagues from different areas of medicine, they have faced discrimination, workplace harassment, lack of empathy in that sense, although it continues to exist, the culture has changed,” he explained.
To guarantee a medical environment with equity, programs focused on eradicating discrimination are required to be part of a real strategy and not a simulation.
“That the programs to eradicate discrimination and violence once morest women are 100% real, not just an advertisement that appears on a computer screen, that job positions are selected with true academic competence and aptitude in the field.” area,” he emphasized.
The importance of hematology
The expert in hematopoietic cell transplantation indicated that interest in studying hematology has increased, a specialty that she considered “A sensitive area of medicine.”
That undergraduate students really know the area of hematology with a hematologist professor who conveys to them the exciting nature of this branch “is a determining factor for new generations to make the decision to consider this specialty,” he pointed out.
Barrios Hernández explained that hematological diseases can be curable if they are detected in time and receive appropriate treatment, including hematopoietic cell transplantation.
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“Our government, civil organizations and hematologists promote health policies to be able to care for and give access to treatment to groups of patients with hematological pathologies and to transplant hematopoietic cells,” he reported.
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The specialist concluded that the common goal should be that care programs can be accessible to all patients.
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