Letter to a Young Female Physician (eBook)

Thoughts on Life and Work

Suzanne Koven (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
320 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-00715-9 (ISBN)

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"e;A warm and wry epistle, the endless and near-perfect email you wish your mother, your mentor and your therapist would sit down and type out together."e; Laura Kolbe, Wall Street JournalIn 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with "e;imposter syndrome"e;a long-held secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a real doctor. Accessed by thousands of readers around the world, Kovens Letter to a Young Female Physician has evolved into a deeply felt reflection on her career in medicine.Koven tells candid and illuminating stories about her pregnancy during a grueling residency in the AIDS era; the illnesses of her child and aging parents during which her roles as a doctor, mother, and daughter converged, and sometimes collided; the sexism, pay inequity, and harassment that women in medicine encounter; and the twilight of her career during the COVID-19 pandemic. As she traces the arc of her life, Koven finds inspiration in literature and faces the near-universal challenges of burnout, body image, and balancing work with marriage and parenthood.Shining with warmth, clarity, and wisdom, Letter to a Young Female Physician reveals a woman forging her authentic identity in a modern landscape that is as overwhelming and confusing as it is exhilarating in its possibilities. Koven offers an indelible account, by turns humorous and profound, from a doctor, mother, wife, daughter, teacher, and writer who sheds light on our desire to find meaning, and on a way to be our own imperfect selves in the world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: AIDS • authenticity • Covid 19 • graduation gift • harassment • Illness • impostor syndrome • medical resident • Medical Writing • New England Journal of Medicine • pay inequality • Practice • Sexism • women doctors • Working Mothers
• ISBN-10: 1-324-00715-X / 132400715X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00715-9 / 9781324007159