My wife was called “nurse” four times today - before lunch. She’s been called nurse every day since she started work as a doctor in May. All of her female colleagues experienced the exact same thing every day. None of her male colleagues have.

I’ve read my tweet back a good few times now, and I’m really struggling to find the part where I criticised nurses. But so many people clearly see an explicit criticism of nurses that it must be there somewhere. I’ll read it back again to be sure.

For the record, my wife hugely admires nurses & has an excellent relationship with her team. This tweet is about how when a man and a woman are beside each other, wearing the same scrubs, a stethoscope and a red badge saying “doctor”, it’s not ok to call him Doctor and her Nurse.

And the lads (of course it’s all lads) saying it’s a snowflake thing, she didn’t complain - she merely said it to me in passing as a fact. If ye lads had to deal with what she (& the nurses) deals with at work on a regular basis, you boys would be crying for your mammies.

She wears a badge and introduces herself as “one of the doctors”. Still gets called nurse by those patients. didn’t say it’s the worse thing she’s experienced, but if your bar is that you shouldn’t comment on sexism because there’s always something worse, then it’ll never change