Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life: Thoughts on Life and Work - Couverture souple

Koven, Suzanne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 132402190X ISBN 13 : 9781324021902

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2022

Synopsis

A poignant, funny, personal exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor.

In 2017, Dr Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by women doctors, including her own personal struggle with “imposter syndrome”―a long-held, secret belief that she was not clever enough or good enough to be a “real” doctor. Accessed nearly 300,000 times by readers around the world, Koven’s Letter to a Young Female Physician has evolved into a work that reflects on her career in medicine, in which women still encounter sexism, pay inequity and harassment. Koven tells engaging stories about her pregnancy during a gruelling residency in the AIDS era; the illnesses of her son and parents during which her roles as a doctor, mother and daughter converged; and the twilight of her career during the COVID-19 pandemic. Letter to a Young Female Physician offers an indelible eyewitness account from a doctor, mother, wife, daughter, teacher and writer that will encourage readers to embrace their own imperfect selves.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Suzanne Koven is a primary care physician and the inaugural writer-in-residence at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her writing has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Boston Globe, and other publications. A faculty member at Harvard Medical School, she lives near Boston.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 132402190X
• ISBN 13: 9781324021902
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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