Another RCT showing the negative effect of poor workplace culture on performance. Medical students witnessing video evidence of disrespect towards another medical student subsequently performed worse on an academic task.
#MedSky
(Do we want the best future doctors? #OperateWithRespect! 🤨)
Greg 'gotta bury the body' Malham also practised for years at Epworth. To me, the obvious next question is- how many other surgeons at Epworth are 'open secrets' to their colleagues? 🤔
#OperateWithRespect
#TheStandardWeWalkPast
A slide in Spanish with the title 'Diferentes Copas' (English translation 'different cups') and pictures of women wearing bras (and nothing else) in sizes A to D.
A lecture about the sizing of hip joint replacements making a totally unnecessary comparison to breast sizes. This is appalling sexism in surgery. 🤨
#ILookLikeASurgeon
#OperateWithRespect
(Credit: Dr Cris Ojeda-Thies)
'I'll take 'women' for 50 points again, thanks Bob'
I'm not sure why news outlets keep going to the same wrong, outdated commentators again and again. We don't accept racism, sexism, or badmouthing colleagues any more.
#OperateWithRespect
Two important points from Dr Chelcie Jewitt @survivinginscrubs.bsky.social
1. If you do not feel safe, you do *not* have to speak up. Safety comes first.
2. There is no rush. Please seek support and advice, and decide on next actions that are right for *you*.
#MedTwitter #OperateWithRespect
“It was intended as a joke, but I recognise how bad it looks,” he said.
I'm not sure I want to know what else he considers 'a joke' 😬
#OperateWithRespect
Webinar alert for RACS Academy of Surgical Educators members- Paul Gretton Watson will be discussing his latest paper from the #OperateWithRespect project tomorrow, March 25th, 1800 AEDT.
Register here- www.surgeons.org/Fellows/for-...
Paper here-
www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
A smiling older doctor wearing glasses, scrubs and gloves.
Thoughts please #MedSky #MedEd. What do you *do* (actions) when you have a senior colleague with suspected cognitive decline? I'm interested in #OperateWithRespect options that maintain privacy and dignity while avoiding 'walking past until reputation-ruining crisis'. 🤔
We talk about staff burnout, workforce turnover, lowered productivity etc. but this 👇is a good reminder that culture matters because it ALL comes back to patient care.
#OperateWithRespect
#MedSky
Re-upping this study from @jasonmharley.bsky.social and team. What happens when surgery residents witness harassment in simulation? A lot of *not* speaking up 🤔.
The reasons why (or why not) provide important considerations for #CultureChange.
#OperateWithRespect #MedSky
14 surgical trainees standing on the front steps of the RACS building in Melbourne. 8 are women, at least 6 are non-white and there are a wide variety of heights.
This pic of the RACSTA ( @racsurgeons.bsky.social Trainee Association) Committee makes me very happy. This is the future of surgery.
#ILookLikeASurgeon
#DiversityAndInclusion
#OperateWithRespect
#MedEd #SurgEd
It is LITERALLY #IWD2025 today, with the theme #RightsEqualityEmpowerment and we still have to put up with this. In Australia. In 2025. In plain view.
😣 #OperateWithRespect
#ILookLikeASurgeon
Email screenshot with identifiable details redacted. Text- Thanks, Rhea. It's been a pleasure to experience working in truely psychologically safe space. Now that l've experienced it, l'm not sure I ever have before.
This email from a senior medical consultant hit me hard.
How can we establish #PsychologicalSafety when it's never been there for so many of us? 💔
#OperateWithRespect
That is *quite* the Reply All accident 😳. Not a good look for NSW Health.
#OperateWithRespect
Cover of Surgery Platinum textbook and accompanying Xmas card from Ron.
Chapter 26- Improving Respectful Culture in Surgery. Author: A/Prof Rhea Liang, Special Contributor 🤗.
Such a delight to work with Dr Ron Baticulon, paediatric neurosurgeon, introducing the principles of #OperateWithRespect to a new audience. And what perfect Xmas timing for publication! 🤗🙏🎁
He is still exactly like that. When I write curricula or develop resources for @racsurgeons.bsky.social #OperateWithRespect or A Better Culture (the Commonwealth project) he's one of the people I have in mind as exemplars.
What thing to wake up and find myself counted with @mstotty88.bsky.social, Sam Atallah @orthopodreg.bsky.social and Farah Bhatti- such an honour 🤗. I hope Sam and Farah join us on 🦋 soon. The work continues! 😷🔪 #MedSky #MedEd #SurgEd #DiversityAndInclusion #OperateWithRespect
I always put a disclaimer on it (being an #OperateWithRespect advocate) that it illustrates the pitfalls of stereotypes, because most of the orthopods I know are *not* like this. Punch up, not down. 🤣👍
Prof Kirsty Forrest standing at a podium in front of a screen with a picture of Dr Dinesh Palipana and his quote.
Congrats to the graduating medical cohort of Bond University! Dean Prof Kirsty Forrest reminds graduands of the words of faculty member Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM- 'It is important to have the right people in medicine'.
🤗❤️ #OperateWithRespect #MedTwitter
OK #MedSky, on a pt's first outpatient clinic visit (or any visit really) please don't be the sort of doctor who says 'I'm here to screen out the dross from the GP referrals'.
Disrespectful to GP colleagues and disrespectful to the patient. 😖👎
#OperateWithRespect
Totally agree. Social context, prior team culture, intent vs perception- all of this is important to consider, and after nearly 9 years of #OperateWithRespect I am hoping organisations are ready for these conversations instead of the simplistic and hammer-like 'zero tolerance' approach.
Wonderful model for healthy workplace culture from COSA (Clinical Oncological Society Australia- sadly not yet on 🦋). It's only partly true that it is a leadership responsibility, because it won't work unless leaders are willing to also engage with humility- and *listen*.
#OperateWithRespect
I heard the same 'but it's just banter' justification in surgical spaces for years- about a decade and a half- before we were able to start changing the narrative through the RACS #OperateWithRespect project, now in its 9th year. Change takes ages. Sport culture needs to start NOW.
Fascinating study of hashtags like #ILookLikeASurgeon #OperateWithRespect.
'The cyclical nature of hashtag activity suggests that hashtags remain popular after their ‘trending’ period and this significantly increases the potential outreach of the tweets.'
publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/full/10....
Another course taught, this time with fellow #OperateWithRespect veteran Dr Ian Incoll. We (a faculty of just 30) have now taught advanced skills to 2276 surgeons since 2017, or about one-third of the active surgical workforce in Australia and New Zealand. Yay us! 👏 #RACSurgeons
The comms👇 when you take Miss 15 as 'plus one' to a dinner speaking engagement 🤣
Many thanks to MLSQ for the warm welcome. Clearly the medicolegal and culture change spaces share a lot in common! #OperateWithRespect #ABetterCulture 1/3
Here is the handling of sexual misconduct, harassment and bullying in the RACS Code of Conduct, which (succinctly!- *too* succinctly?) addresses patient, peer and trainee relationships. Much to ponder and I'm sure our shared work via #OperateWithRespect will continue. 6/6
Another @racsurgeons #OperateWithRespect course delivered. We are now in our 9th year and it's amazing how much the conversations have changed. The scenarios we wrote in 2016 as 'unsure' examples have recently had to be revised because changing norms made them clearly 'unacceptable'! 🤯
Meanwhile over on the site where we spill our T, this guy's response to a colleague's suicide is that *not working hard enough* is the reason someone deserves to be dead.💔
We can't fix bad medical culture until we get rid of attitudes like this. 🤨 #OperateWithRespect
