Should doctors stop using the names of dead white men?
Too many women have seen their scientific achievements credited to men, two specialists write in the MJA.
It’s a man’s world — at least when it comes to the eponyms for 3500 body parts, diseases and surgical techniques.
Used by doctors every day, eponyms are handy verbal shortcuts, as well as tributes to leading — usually male, white and dead — medical figures.
