This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine

by Eliza Lo Chin (editor)

This Side of Reflections for Women in Medicine offers up an intimate collection of stories, poems, essays, and quotations that captures the joy and heartbreak of being women and being a physician. Editor Eliza Lo Chin (MD, Harvard Medical School) has gathered more than 100 voices that speak to the trials, rewards, and surprises of practicing medicine. Beginning with the writings of early medical pioneers, the anthology weaves a rich patchwork of experiences.  Raw and honest, This Side of Doctoring acquaints us with worlds we could otherwise only imagine. Throughout these pages you′ll find the expressions of courage, doubt, fatigue, perseverance, frustration, and triumph that make up the lives of women physicians. These are the stories of choosing a life in medicine and the many roadmaps that women follow in living that life.  

Genres: Medicine, Medical, Nonfiction, Biography, History

424 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Alisa Duran · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a collection of short stories about women in medicine. I can relate to all of these. They cover topics that we all deal with including balancing home and work responsibilities A must read for any woman in medicine

[Mark Bennett · Rating 5 out of 5]

A quarter the way through. Compelling and revealing in the early going. What women have faced over the years as they entered once male-dominated professions. Exemplars, these women, the best and brightest breaking down barriers. My primary care physician is a woman, and she's one of the grandest physicians on the planet, and when I asked her for book recommendations, this book headed the list.

Finished it today, August 28th.

Stirring. Honestly, the world continues to be made over. After reading this anthology it's clear what the trail blazers and their immediate followers were able to do. Our culture has changed, the world has changed. As Simone de Beauvoir once wrote, freedom and equality will come when women are "physically present" in all walks of life.

Of course, there's more to do, more changes to be made as men and women connect, cooperate and love each other as equals.

Am with Max on this one:

Women in medicine. I don’t know, I have to come back round to my first moment with Camille. It wasn’t “lust” or “sexual attraction” or even the thought of “romance” it was her warm-heartedness and kindness amidst the expertise. Her efficiency and excellence was hedged all round with a loving empathy, it’s something she does day to day, it’s who she is.

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[Jaime · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite books of all time - I can read it over and over and over and over and never get sick of it. It is compiled of short essays from a myriad of female physicians, focusing on different aspects and times of their lives and careers as both mothers and doctors - and as women in such a male-dominated field.

[Kara Larson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Brought much of medical school and residency back in a very real way for me. Although my partner and I chose not to become mothers until I was in private practice, the struggle for balance between Mama and Doctor Larson continues... This book helped me appreciate the wisdom of others and take comfort in the fact that I am not alone.

[Kate Burke · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book will help me through medical school and after.