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This commentary is ridiculous and completely disconnected from the realities of a clinicians in regular practice. I am pretty darn certain that most women murdered in their home did not even have access to a physician. Physicians, particularly clinicians, are strapped for ressources especially in mental health and social work. We already have enough on our plate- to ask us to play a role in femicide?? No. How about our government, legal system, professional associations together to find solutions to tackle this societal issue on a large scale. That has as much to do about how we raise girls/boys, raising a societal/institutional awareness of attachement dynamics, triggers, boundaries and creating innovative ways of connecting women to various forms of community and support. But to ask the poor clinicians who are barely surviving burnout to start tackling femicide is once again completely disconnected from the reality of the terrain. Physicians have a poor time already putting healthy boundaries for themselves in a system that is demanding more and more and not taking anything off their plates. We are constantly being asked to save the system in impossible ways. And this is just another example of ridiculous demands that will trigger anxiety in physician that they are not doing enough. When really, they are already doing way too much. Much more than any previous generation of physicians.
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Take it or leave this perspective from this ex-academic neonatologist, who no...Competing Interests: None declared.References
- Nori L. Bradley, Nada Gawad, Jaclyn McNamara, et al. The physician’s role in the prevention of femicide in Canada. CMAJ 2021;193:E1844-E1845.