Female physician

As an Emergency Medicine Physician, my schedule is anything but predictable. One of the hardest things I remember from my first year in residency, was teaching my body NOT to have a schedule. It took about a year for me to get used to switching back and forth. That’s part of Emergency Medicine. We work...

I am a woman in a man's profession, and it's certainly time that the prevalence of societal sex-stereotyping is publicly addressed. We begrudgingly accept this level of misogyny and anti-family sentiment when it's subtle, constitutive and mixed with praise for being tough. After all, this is surgery. And surgeons are tough.