Tweet: Amy Diehl PhD in response to tweet from Amani Jambhekar MD, MBA

Today I spent five painstaking hours operating on a patient w/ breast cancer only to have her husband ask me when I updated him, “Is the surgeon going to come see me too?” They’ve been coming to my office for >8 mos AND I’ve operated on her before #womensurgeons #MedTwitter. The tweet got 7 comments, 31 retweets and 162 likes. One of the retweets from @amydiehl reads: Time for a new term: Role incredulity. This happens when a woman is assumed to be in a support role, rather than the leader role she occupies. #RoleIncredulity (coined by me and @leannedz for our forthcoming book on gender bias).