🩺Qualified to Treat, Still Fighting to Be Seen: Doctor by Degree. Invisible by Patriarchy
Hi guys as you all know I'm working as veterinary doctor in small village of Himachal Pradesh since 3 years and what irritated me must is the mentality of these rural people and villagers..Earlier it affected me alot when I started my job..it was all rosie until patient owners started coming to me..They called me beta, madam, didi and sometimes even worse - just nothing , they directly start telling their problems without showing respect. But thing that remained constant is that they never called me doctor (except just 5% of whole population). Not because they don’t know. But because they choose not to . They know very well who I am, what I do, and how many of their animals I’ve healed, how many late-night emergencies I’ve taken calls for but somehow the word doctor never reaches their lips when it was meant for me. There mindset is so crooked that they can only relate power and knowledge with either age, gender or preferably both . I being young women that also doct...
