Update: Journal of Vascular Surgery retracts recent social media professionalism article

I have a personal vendetta against "looking the part" as a physician. It's not even about looking clean/put together. It's about looking like a boomer's ideal young man/woman.

I'm a man with hair passed my shoulders. I also have a beard. I'll have to chop off all my hair and shave off most of my beard, despite the fact they're both very clean and generally groomed, because a bunch of boomers think it's "unprofessional." Some goes for tattoos on any sex, piercings on men, etc. It's just stupid.

The fact this is now extending into personal lives outside of work is fucking absurd. I eagerly await the day people get the sticks out of their ass and realize what I look like and do in my free time really has no bearing on my ability to think and practice medicine.

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