This Side of Doctoring
Reflections from Women in Medicine

Edited by:

Eliza Lo Chin - American Medical Women's Association, Reston, VA, USA

December 2001 | 424 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This Side of Doctoring: 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.

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Janet Bickel

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Eliza Lo Chin

Introduction

Eliza Lo Chin

1. Historical Perspective

2. Early Pioneers

Glances and Glimpses

Harriet Hunt

Letters from Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell

In the Words of Mary Putnam Jacobi

Mary Putnam Jacobi

The Fortress

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Some of My Life Experiences

Bethenia A. Owens-Adair

From More Than Gold in California

Mary Bennett Ritter

From Mine Eyes Have Seen

Alfreda Withington

Petticoat Surgeon

Bertha Van Hoosen

From A Child Went Forth

Helen MacKnight Doyle

Fighting for Life

S. Josephine Baker

From Bowery to Bellevue

Emily Dunning Barringer

A Woven Fabric

Mary Canaga Rowland

Woman at the Gate

Gulli Lindh Muller

A Woman Doctor Looks at Love and Life

Marion Hilliard

The Antique Roadshow of a 90-Year-Old

Juliana Swiney

Sound Investments

Gertrude Russack Sobel

The First Women at H.M.S.

Doris Rubin Bennett

I Will Not Pass Away

Mildred Fay Jefferson

The Beginnings of Women's Health Advocacy

Lila A. Wallis

From Chivalry and Off-Color Jokes to Acceptance and Respect

Marianne Wolff

Medicine and Motherhood

Marilyn Heins

Medical Internship

Grace Foege Holmes

3. The Formative Years

A Youthful Encounter

Ann Klompus Lanzerotti

From Kitchen Table Wisdom

Rachel Naomi Remen

Anatomy Lesson

Rebecca Tennant

Cold Hands

Jennifer Hyde

Here Is What I Learned

Alison Moll

Jane

Ambur L. Economou

Circumstance

Renda Soylemez

From the Deccan Plateau

Teena Shetty

Song of the Dying Ova

Sayantani DasGupta

How I'll Become a Good Physician

Amy L. Dryer

A Gift

Michelle Monje

Thirtysomething Meets ER

Lori Gottlieb

Freckles

Jennifer Best

Summers With My Aunt

Renda Soylemez

The Discovery Clinic

Melanie M. Watkins

4. Life in the Trenches: Internship and Residency

Unknown Alpha

Lori E. Summers

Birthday

Melissa Fischer

How I Survived Residency

Nassim Assefi

Necessary Journeys

Nancy L. Snyderman

Post-Call

Sheri Ann Hunt

We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Men as Medical Mentors

Sayantani DasGupta

Whine List

Perri Klass

The Only Night I Cried

Sondra Vazirani

A Long Road

Elsa Raskin

A Time for Change: Innovative Pathways for Residency Training

Elizabeth A. Rider

Lamentation of the Female Academician

Melissa A. Parisi

But I Do Care

Joan Stroud

5. On Doctoring

In Between Before and After

Katherine Uraneck

Heartsick

Julia E. McMurray

My Patient, the Doctor, and Me

Gayatri Devi

Heart Doctor

Stephanie Nagy-Agren

Common Ground

Danielle Ofri

Dawn

Kathleen Franco

Life Force

Rachel Naomi Remen

A Doctor Alone With Her Decision

L. Hawes Clever

Through the Eyes of a Physician

Preetha Basaviah

Why You Came to Me

Anju Goel

Generations

Emily R. Transue

Finding Beauty in Annie

Teresa Clabots

A Visit to the Doctor

Deborah Young Bradshaw

Job Description

Katherine Uraneck

6. Mothering and Doctoring

Mutual Benefits

Rebekah Wang-Cheng

Doctor's Daughter

Julia E. McMurray

Conversation Hearts

Janice E. Daugherty

Monday Morning

A. Shafer

"mommydoc"

D. Miller

A Mother's Prayer

S. Crosby

On Being a Medical Mom

C. Leichman

Tsunami Baby

K. Dong

A Patient's Wife

Ruth Cohen

The Transition Game

Bonnie Salomon

Interview for Clinician-Educator Position

Stephanie Nagy-Agren

Spiderlings

Dugan Wiess Maddux

Teeter-Totter

Marcia Quereau McCrae

Breast-Feeding: Straddling the Fence Between Work and Home

Rebecca J. Kurth

A Reminiscence

Patricia Collins Temple

The Second Road

Eliza Lo Chin

Patients as Patron Saints

Alison Moll

Mother's Day

Nalini Juthani

"To Love and to Work"

Nancy B. Kaltreider

Balance

Cynthia J. Kapphahn

Numbing Down

Rebecca Tennant

Maternity and Medicine

Anne E. Bernstein

Parenting Without Pregnancy

Toby Jacobowitz

Body Snatcher

Liza Sharpless Bonanno

Redefining Motherhood

Karen P. Alexander

Taking Children Seriously

Jessica Schorr Saxe

7. Making Choices

Finding the Balance Point Between Overdrive and the Mommy Track

Mary Lou Schmidt

Between Lawn Cuts

Anne Armstrong-Coben

Not Having Children

Rita Charon

Missed Opportunities

Barbara Cammer Paris

Taking Stock

Kathy Kirkland

Life Choices

Kathleen Dong

Composing a Life in Medicine

Joyce Rico

On Packing for the Information Superhighway

Cynthia Rasch

Thoughts on Time Management

Veronica Piziak

8. Barriers

Glass Ceiling

Bhuvana Chandra

Why Don't You Quit?

Nancy B. Kaltreider

Woman in Orthopedic Surgery Stories

Mary Williams Clark

Life in the Boys' Club

Roberta E. Sonnino

Professionalism

Rosa E. Cuenca

The Feminization of American Medicine

Kathryn Ko

An Interview Tale

Priya Krishna

Not Easy to Please

Woman's Medical Journal

On Reaching Visible

Susan K. Schultz

Triple Jeopardy

Livia Shang-yu Wan

A Minority Perspective

Beverly M. Gaines

My Path Through Medical School

Barbara K. Pawley

The Life of Women in Medicine

Barbara R. Sommer

Leave

Grace H. Elta

Emotional Conflicts of the Career Woman

Alexandra Symonds

Kath's Graduation

Kathryn A. Carolin

An American Experience

Dorina Rose Abdulah

A Warm Gesture

Name Withheld

A Lesbian Voice: What Does It Mean to Be a "Dyke Doctor"?

Patricia A. Robertson

9. Connections

The Doctor in the Family

Marie F. Johnson

Tobacco, Tulips, and Terminal Care

Maryella Desak Sirmon

The Friendship of Women

Marjorie Spurrier Sirridge

A Doctor in the Family

Bhuvana Chandra

The Two-Casserole Test

Linda Hawes Clever

The Cafeteria

Lou Elizabeth Mac Manus

Memories of Our Mother

Diane F. Merritt

10. Balancing

August 1994: Letter to My Student

Beth Alexander

Balancing, Juggling, and Other Feats

Donna L. Parker

Juggling the Personal and Professional Life

Marcia Angell

Workday Mornings-Three Weeks

Stephanie Nagy-Agren

Where Is the Self?

Gayle Shore Moyer

The Multitude of Little Things

Dorothy V. Whipple

Is It Worth It?

Nancy B. Kaltreider

Can It Be Done?

Mary Lou Schmidt

A Few Thoughts on Part-time Faculty: The Push for the Summit and the Long Climb Down

Charlotte Heidenreich

Centered in the Deep Connections

Lucy M. Candib

An Independent Scientist

Linda Ganzini

How to Do It All at Once

Teresa Clabots

Late Lunch

Mary Williams Clark

Balancing Family and Career: Advice From the Trenches

Molly Carnes

One Page at a Time

Audrey Shafer

To Rachel

Joan C. Lo

Pregnancy and the Professional Woman

Amy A. Tyson

The Changing Role of Physicians as Working Mothers

Marian Korteling Levai

Reflections on Balance

Jennifer R. Niebyl

Notes From a Personal Journey

Silvia Wybert Olarte

11. Our Families' Perspectives

Jelly

Dr. W

From Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer

Sara Lawrence Lightfoot

Our Medical Marriage

Richard M. Berlin

From Her Infinite Variety

A Lawyer

What's a Mother For?

Blaise Levai

Life With Mother, the M.D.

Cynthia Magowan

What We Have Fashioned Together

Theodore Nadelson & Leon Eisenberg

I Remember as a Child

Mary Cogan Bromage

Renuka Gera

Lori Gera

12. Reflections

The Feminization of Medicine

Perri Klass

Double Helix

Angelee Deodhar

Identity Crisis

Anne Lipton

A Personal Journey

Graciela S. Alarcón

My Experience as a Woman in Medicine

Florence H. Sheehan

Scopes, Hopes and Learning the Ropes

Christina M. Surawicz

Defining Ourselves

Carol Merchant

Looking Good

Martha Stitelman

What It's Been Like

Kathryn D. Anderson

Reminiscences of My Medical Career

Michelle Palmieri Warren

Enjoying the Moment

Catherine Chang

Navigating the Maze of Academic Medicine

JoAnn Elisabeth Manson

From Teacher to Psychiatrist With Family

Leah J. Dickstein

Generation to Generation: Mother-Daughter Physicians

Diane K. Shrier & Lydia A. Shrier

Afterword

Eliza Lo Chin

Glossary

Resources for Women in Medicine

About the Editor

About the Contributors

Like a patchwork quilt, this richly-textured compilation represents each woman’s extraordinary life and career while their common experiences clearly emerge, cutting across different specialties, ages, and geographic divides.

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Authoritative

Covers historical perspective

Covers pros/cons of being a woman physician

Unique literary perspective

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