Imperial mustache. The (hairy?) face of medical leadership, Science, AAAS
Asian moustache style. The (hairy?) face of medical leadership, Science, AAAS During the recent holidays, worldwide attention focused on a possibly fictional individual famous for both copious facial hair and an important leadership position. Perhaps the seasonal prominence of Santa Claus’s facial follicles was what inspired physicians Mackenzie Wehner and Kevin Nead of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and co-authors to publish a 16 December article in TheBMJ examining the relationship between a hirsute visage and leadership in academic medicine. Plenty of moustaches but not enough women: cross sectional study of medical leaders finds that “[m]oustachioed...