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Pursuing Equity in Medicine: One Woman's Journey
Catherine DeAngelis, MD, MPH, has over forty years of experience in the medical field, and her career has been full of adventure, compassion, and courage.
DeAngelis was born to a family of Italian immigrants in rural northeastern Pennsylvania. Every year she would ask Santa Claus for a doctor’s kit. Every year she would receive a nurse’s kit. It was only when her father turned one such gift into a doctor’s kit that DeAngelis was truly happy. With her father’s faith in her, DeAngelis had the confidence to apply to medical school.
The road ahead would not be easy—it would be fraught with uncertainty, prejudice, and even Chechen hostage takers! Along the way, DeAngelis gained more and more confidence in her ability as a doctor but remained frustrated by the lack of opportunities available to women in her field. In Pursuing Equity in One Woman’s Journey , she uses examples from her own life to passionately argue for equal treatment for all men and women.
This memoir is a must-read for any woman in the medical profession determined to break the glass ceiling—and any man who wants to understand what his female colleagues must endure.
DeAngelis was born to a family of Italian immigrants in rural northeastern Pennsylvania. Every year she would ask Santa Claus for a doctor’s kit. Every year she would receive a nurse’s kit. It was only when her father turned one such gift into a doctor’s kit that DeAngelis was truly happy. With her father’s faith in her, DeAngelis had the confidence to apply to medical school.
The road ahead would not be easy—it would be fraught with uncertainty, prejudice, and even Chechen hostage takers! Along the way, DeAngelis gained more and more confidence in her ability as a doctor but remained frustrated by the lack of opportunities available to women in her field. In Pursuing Equity in One Woman’s Journey , she uses examples from her own life to passionately argue for equal treatment for all men and women.
This memoir is a must-read for any woman in the medical profession determined to break the glass ceiling—and any man who wants to understand what his female colleagues must endure.
331 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 25, 2016
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June 4, 2025
Full disclosure: I know the author. I worked with her at Hopkins and my daughter is named after her. After saying all that, this is a great book. Dr. De. writes likes she talks so the reader instantly gets to know her. It is a thoughtful book on her trials and joys of her struggles to break that “ glass ceiling “ for women, in her case in medicine. She talks about her struggles to achieve Equity in her professional life while in academics and as the editor of JAMA. It’s an interesting read for anyone interested in medicine, woman or man. She tells it with humor and grace. She illustrates not just the memorable moments of her career, , but the difficulties she has to overcome as a woman in medicine. She ends it with a positive note saying how now there are more than half of women making up medical school classes and at least 13 women deans in major medical schools. I will leave you with her cry. “ONWARD!”
July 29, 2018
Interesting but dragged at times.
The minutia covered made it dull and difficult to finish. Nonetheless an extraordinary journey by an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary time.
The minutia covered made it dull and difficult to finish. Nonetheless an extraordinary journey by an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary time.
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