Abstract
I was a first-year psychiatry resident, attempting to lead an interview with my patient with mania on our inpatient unit with male colleagues present. When my patient interrupted me mid-interview to demand that I (M.C.) stop speaking, I wasn’t sure how to respond. While I objectively recognized that his comment came from a state of thought disorganization and mood lability, a part of me couldn’t help but take it a little personally. I felt embarrassed; was there actually something irritating about my high-pitched voice? Was there something I was doing to seem like a less respectable physician than my male colleagues?
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