Dr. Oikeh was outraged by the article, especially because she'd gone through similar "scrutiny and accusation" recently. "I was extremely upset," she said. "I couldn't sleep that night because I kept on thinking about what I went through and how upset I was for many weeks."
That prior experience almost cost Dr. Oikeh her career, she said. She joined the #medbikini movement "in support of my fellow female physicians, and also as a way to stand up to those colleagues that judged me and keep on judging me." Female doctors have a life outside of medicine, Dr. Oikeh continued. "It definitely doesn't make them incompetent or unprofessional or unhireable because I have a public Instagram page where I share a snippet of my life."