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Letter to a Young Female Physician: Thoughts on Life and Work by Suzanne Koven is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**"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." —Laura Kolbe, Wall Street Journal** 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, c

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

Author

Suzanne Koven

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781324007142

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, Memoir

Updated

2026-03-24