Are you their buddy, or their boss? Sometimes have difficulty separating the two? The role of women in the workplace as employer and employee is fraught with difficulty as we lack the tools to comfortably be in charge, when we really want to be friends. The socialization of women in childhood to play well together, and to avoid being labeled ‘bossy’, causes women physicians to have experience conflict in the estrogen-laden hierarchy of medicine.

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2. Liked? Or In Charge? Effectively Managing Your Staff Patricia L. Raymond MD FACP FACG

8. When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ~ Edith Evans Women Doctors Verses the Nurses, or Apple a day

15. I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. ~ Marilyn Monroe How did this happen? Pimping, ‘fella’, deb tannen, pat heim

16. When women are depressed they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking. ~ Elayne Boosler ‘ make it happen’, labs, 301.3 quarrelsome, neurosurgeon

17. I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid. ~ Katherine Hepburn

20. I'm working my way toward divinity. ~ Bette Midler

21. We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company. ~ Lily Tomlin (as Ernestine)

47. There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experience and experiment before you find your calling. ~ Jane Pauley

50. Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself. ~ Roseanne Barr

51. 4. Acknowledge parallel medical tracts Personal shopper, spoons

52. You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. ~Harriet Woods

53. I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names. ~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

56. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

57. A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; A great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. Buddy or Boss? Or Between? Neither. Be a Leader.

58. I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~ Louisa May Alcott

59. 7. Implement It Immediately

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62. Liked or In Charge, Part II: Engage Your Staff Patricia L. Raymond MD FACP, FACG

77. Prevention: “Elevation” J. Haidt, UVa

81. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. -Mark Twain 1835-1910

84. No, I don’t understand my husband’s theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted. ~ Elsa Einstein

87. There are two things that people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise. ~Mary Kay Ash

90. Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others, whenever they go. -Oscar Wilde 1854-1900

92. Implement It Immediately

94. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again. ~ Sojourner Truth

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