Photos of an emergency medicine doctor treating a bloodied patient while wearing a bikini swept social media

News24xx.com - Photos of an emergency medicine doctor treating a bloodied patient while wearing a bikini swept social media last week.

In the images, Hawaii-based Dr. Candice Myhre, who also goes by "Dr. Bikini," is seen treating a man with severe bleeding and leg wounds.

It was a re-enactment of a moment in November 2013, when she was surfing and witnessed a 24-foot boat hit a woman, who sustained "life-threatening injuries," according to Myhre. She went back through the motions for a television segment called "Dr. Bikini: Untold Stories of the ER," which aired in November 2014.

Myhre told she shared the image on July 25 in protest against a retracted controversial study that analyzed doctors' social media use and called female doctors "unprofessional" for being photographed in bikinis.

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Incensed, Myhre shared her pictures on Instagram with the tag #MedBikini, joining thousands of other doctors.

"It is disgraceful that such a sexist study could get approved in the first place," Myhre told Insider. "Who cares if your board-certified doctor has a personal life? Shouldn't we want medical professionals to be happy in their personal lives so that they are successful in their professional lives?"

When Myhre first caught wind of the study in question, she was outraged.

It was published quietly behind a paywall on the website of the Journal of Vascular Surgery on Christmas Day 2019, but became free to read in late July. It concluded that women doctors who post bikini photos may be perceived as "provocative," "unprofessional," and "inappropriate."

In response, women in the medical field began sharing bikini photos of themselves to demonstrate double standards in their workplaces, and #MedBikini became an internet phenomenon.

Myhre had never participated in a social media movement before, over the fear of retribution at work. The #MedBikini movement hit close to home for Myhre, though, so she decided to take a chance and posted the now-famous image on July 25 to her personal Instagram account.

In the photo, Myhre is reenacting the moment she used a surfboard to pull a woman to safety. She also pulled off her rash guard and used it to stop the woman from bleeding to death, treated her in a remote urgent-care facility in under an hour to get her out of critical condition, and flew her to a hospital for further treatment. 

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Though she wasn't working at the time, Myhre sprung to action to treat the woman's injuries and save her life — all while wearing a bikini.

"I managed her care by myself in an underdeveloped country by performing multiple procedures and transfers including from the ocean to island, [to] island mainland hospital, and then evacuation by jet to a developed country," Myhre said.