Letter to a Young Female Physician - Thoughts on Life and Work

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Koven, Suzanne Koven, Suzanne (Harvard Medical School) Koven
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.2022
• EAN: 9781324021902
• ISBN: 978-1-324-02190-2
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 245 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Success, Autobiography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Success, Advice on careers & achieving success, Gender studies: women, Autobiography: science, technology & medicine, Advice on careers and achieving success, Gender studies: women and girls, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs