Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life

In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"—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, Koven’s “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.Letter to a Young Female Physician

Suzanne Koven practiced primary care internal medicine for more than thirty years at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she now serves as writer-in-residence. She also codirects the Media and Medicine Certificate program at Harvard Medical School. Her first book, Letter to a Young Female Physician, was published by Norton in 2021. She lives with her family near Boston.