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Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life

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Release Year
2021
Book Title
Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
ISBN
9781324007142
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Publication Name
Letter to a Young Female Physician : Notes from a Medical Life
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Item Length
8.5 in
Subject
Women, Personal Memoirs, General, Medical
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Suzanne Koven
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Width
5.6 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324007141
ISBN-13
9781324007142
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3050096735

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Letter to a Young Female Physician : Notes from a Medical Life
Subject
Women, Personal Memoirs, General, Medical
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Author
Suzanne Koven
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-000742
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
[Koven] is rueful and delightful and keeps on building a careening and fascinating life... [Letter to a Young Female Physician] is 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., Suzanne Koven's Letter to a Young Female Physician is so wise, beautifully written, tender, and full of heart that it should be required reading for every person--young, female, physician, or otherwise. This is a transporting memoir, and an instructive one., [These] phenomenal essays...are full of acuity and generosity... [Koven's] writing is full of humor, candor, by turns (and often simultaneously) beautiful and heartbreaking shards of narrative, about her own life and the lives of her patients and colleagues. She's also got a killer sense of humor and a fantastic eye for detail., In Letter to a Young Female Physician, Suzanne Koven charts both the real and the spurious demands that the medical system makes on those who become doctors and care for us all. Her memoir is by turns reassuring and disturbing, comical and tragic, hopeful and dire. Medicine has advanced, but the particular difficulties facing young physicians have grown no less steep, and the impediments women continue to face even as they take a majority place in medical schools are considerable. Koven writes with style and wit and grace--but, more significantly, with insight and compassion., Suzanne Koven has written a remarkable memoir about her life as a doctor that is at once heartwarming, poignant, and breathtaking in its precision; this is a book about the essence of medicine, and will be invaluable to any doctor. But in its compassionate reflections on caring for the human body, it is also a book about life, and what makes a good one. I couldn't stop reading.
Dewey Decimal
610.92
Synopsis
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. 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., A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021 A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor.
LC Classification Number
R154.K65A3 2021

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