Slang use in the ICU: we are women, not girls

“Gas girln An anaesthetist who identifies as female.”1 Is this slang just the banter that it is often proclaimed to be, or, in the context of wider misogyny and sexism in medicine, is it harmful?

Hodge and colleagues state that “where one party doesn’t understand its meaning, slang may create a sense of exclusion.” We propose that, even when fully understood, this exclusion …