RAPID RESPONSES FROM BMJ.COM

doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01100006

BMJ, doi: 10.1136/bmjusa.01100006, (Published 13 September 2002)

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RAPID RESPONSES FROM BMJ.COM

What about the women?

Swearing by surgeons $---$ what's the OR got to do with it?

More research needed

Time for a cross-over study?

What about the women?

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This article originally appeared in BMJ USA

EDITOR $---$ As an anesthesiologist, I enjoyed reading the article by Palazzo and Warner. Certainly, their study complements myimpression of life in the operating room on the other side ofthe drapes. It is indeed a pity that they did not add two additionalcolumns looking at the scores on a gender basis. I am sure theresults would be even moreilluminating.

Neil Donen, anesthesiologist.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ndonen@home.com

Swearing by surgeons $---$ what's the OR got to do with it?

EDITOR $---$ Surgeons swear, period. Operating has nothing to do withit!

Gary Stack, general practitioner.
drgstack@iol.ie

More research needed

EDITOR $---$ There is a tremendous need to extend this study to include colleagues on the other side of the Atlantic. Americansare stereotypically considered "less proper" and more inclinedtoward indecorous patterns of self-expression than our "more reserved"neighbors across thepond.

My own observation may serve to validate the authors' reported findings. When I passed their paper around, my colleagues inthe nonsurgical specialties typically . . . [Full text of this article]