Women doctors’ maternity rights


THERE was once a former Head of Emergency Services who told a conference room full of Masters of Emergency Medicine applicants that “if you’ve just had a baby, just take two weeks off and then come back to work and studies”.

Ironically, that former head was a woman doctor herself. And she said this on more than one occasion.

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