# Are surgeons in bikinis a teensy-weensy bit unprofessional?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-surgeons-in-bikinis-a-teensy-weensy-bit-unprofessional/916416
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 26, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-surgeons-in-bikinis-a-teensy-weensy-bit-unprofessional/916416 "2020-07-26T20:39:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-surgeons-in-bikinis-a-teensy-weensy-bit-unprofessional/916416/81 "2020-08-03T13:23:49Z")
> [@Spiderman](#):
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> In looking at the picture, I see another patient, being attended to behind a screen, a bike? (wheel), a guy holding what looks like his lunch, & a TV & a water cooler all on the far side of their ‘trauma room’. I guess it is a backwater, podunk hospital after all.
The articles say she practices in Kalaheo Hawaii, which is a small town on the island of Kauai. So yeah, backwater & podunk. I’d hazard a guess that she was at the beach when the accident occurred, and decided it was safer to transport the patient herself than wait for an ambulance to come from Lihue.
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### Author:  [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-surgeons-in-bikinis-a-teensy-weensy-bit-unprofessional/916416/82 "2020-08-03T21:05:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> I’d take that as in invite for the SDMB management to download it/them once and upload them to the SDMB servers to be served in our threads.
You can do this yourself.
[ ](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/a/adab6e8ff6624929e4e2c00d93633a00292b57e4.gif)
~Max
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-surgeons-in-bikinis-a-teensy-weensy-bit-unprofessional/916416/83 "2020-08-03T23:24:06Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#):
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> I’d hazard a guess that she was at the beach when the accident occurred,
Apparently she was out surfing, saw (or heard) the boat hit him, and used her surfboard to carry him in to the beach.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-surgeons-in-bikinis-a-teensy-weensy-bit-unprofessional/916416/84 "2020-08-04T12:31:18Z")
> [@Max\_S](#):
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> You can do this yourself.
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> ~Max
Now you have a copy on some content distribution server under an account controlled by you. And whose bandwidth you’re free to use. And you can favorite the url of the icon in your browser as a way to remember where you stowed it. Then copy/paste your url from your favorite into your posts whenever you need it.
And certainly I could do the very same thing for me.
All of which does nothing to put that icon into the post editing UI for our non-technical users = everyone else to use.
The Board policy goal I was lobbying for (inside this rapidly growing hijack) was that _all_ the traditional SDMB emoticons be added to the official Discourse emoticon catalog so non-technical folks could use them as they did in the Olden Dayes.
ETA: Interesting … I originally quoted your whole post including the icon reference. When I tried to save the post Discourse barfed back that I couldn’t save a post with in image in it. Never seen that before. So I removed the url and it saved fine.
Perhaps they don’t like images in quotes. I can understand that. But if so they really need a better error message.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-surgeons-in-bikinis-a-teensy-weensy-bit-unprofessional/916416/85 "2020-08-06T02:35:42Z")
Well surprise surprise. Sez here, that photo was staged!
> **[The story behind the widely-shared photo of a bikini-clad doctor who helped a...](https://news.yahoo.com/story-behind-widely-shared-photo-201500791.html)**
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> Dr. Candice Myhre shared a photo of herself saving someone's life while wearing a bikini to highlight "disgraceful" sexism in medicine.
> [@](#):
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> In the images, Hawaii-based Dr. Candice Myhre, who also goes by “Dr. Bikini,” is seen treating a man with severe bleeding and leg wounds.
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> It was a re-enactment of a moment in November 2013, when she was surfing and witnessed a 24-foot boat hit a woman, who sustained “life-threatening injuries,” according to Myhre. She went back through the motions for a television segment called “Dr. Bikini: Untold Stories of the ER,” which aired in November 2014.
ETA: This addresses my question, above, if it was professional to take a photo and publish it of the patient.
ETA-2: Is there something sexist going on here, that the original incident involved a female victim, but the re-enactment portrayed a male victim?
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-surgeons-in-bikinis-a-teensy-weensy-bit-unprofessional/916416/86 "2020-08-06T19:52:21Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> ETA-2: Is there something sexist going on here, that the original incident involved a female victim, but the re-enactment portrayed a male victim?
Pure guesswork on my part, but …
_If_ the event involved a bunch of stuff in the upper chest area being injured, naked, or needing surgery done to it, it’s much easier to broadcast a re-enactment if the patient re-enactor is male.
So if sexist, it’s because society is squeamish about seeing certain parts of human anatomy.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-surgeons-in-bikinis-a-teensy-weensy-bit-unprofessional/916416/87 "2020-08-06T19:54:46Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> the original incident involved a female victim, but the re-enactment portrayed a male victim?
I’m having a hard time understanding why the man would volunteer for such a terrible leg injury just for a reenactment
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-surgeons-in-bikinis-a-teensy-weensy-bit-unprofessional/916416/88 "2020-08-06T20:17:03Z")
It’s called special effects mate
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-surgeons-in-bikinis-a-teensy-weensy-bit-unprofessional/916416/89 "2020-08-06T20:17:45Z")
when a movie has flashbacks to the main character’s childhood they don’t have to wait 20 years between shooting scenes;)
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### Author:  [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-surgeons-in-bikinis-a-teensy-weensy-bit-unprofessional/916416/90 "2020-08-07T02:28:51Z")
Tell that to Richard Linklater.
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