Letter to a Young Female Physician: Thoughts on Life and Work by Koven, Suzanne
Letter to a Young Female Physician: Thoughts on Life and Work by Koven, Suzanne

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

In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her...
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Author: Suzanne Koven
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Letter to a Young Female Physician: Thoughts on Life and Work by Koven, Suzanne

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

$55.99 $29.06
Letter to a Young Female Physician: Thoughts on Life and Work by Koven, Suzanne

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

$55.99 $29.06
Author: Suzanne Koven
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

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.



Author: Suzanne Koven
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/03/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781324021902

About the Author
Koven, Suzanne: - 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.
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