Month: May 2024

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Growing Up Iranian-American

26 May 2024

Sophie Dream, MD, MPH   My father moved to Chicago at a young age.  He and his father had applied for him to get a visa to come to the United States to further his education.  The day my father’...

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WOMEN SURGEONS HAVE BETTER OUTCOMES THAN THEIR MALE COUNTERPARTS

15 May 2024

By: Anna DeFreitas             "Women cannot seriously pursue medical careers (…) unless they stop being women: due to physiological laws, women doctors are ambiguous, hermaphrodite or ...

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Being Vulnerable is Human; Even for Surgeons

08 May 2024

By: Cathy Hung In the earlier years of my career, I always tried to accommodate patients’ needs anytime, all the time, whenever possible. I opened my office many times off-hours at the slightest...

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What @womensurgeons Has Done For Me

01 May 2024

By: Katerina Jou Setting the scene: My medical school didn’t have an AWS chapter. Surgery was just starting to become a growing presence on the school’s campus, with most students pursuing specia...