Vindicated! In a recent post, I took aim at a BusinessWeek article and site comments that insinuated that women doctors were a waste of money using the changing scope of medicine as their proof. I countered that those same changes were very much welcomed by the young men in medicine as well and that the […]
Women Doctors: Waste of Money? I think not!
A friend forwarded me an article from the British Medical Journal titled “Are There Too Many Female Medical Graduates? Yes”. My friend is a Ghanaian woman who is in the research years of an MD/PhD degree at Harvard. She was none too pleased. I didn’t get riled up because objectively the points raised are grossly true. […]
I Don’t Like It Here!
Lately, I’ve been thinking of what it means to be a woman in terms of having a career, gender roles, and childbearing and I don’t like it. Several articles and unsolicited comments have set me on this path, namely a recent article titled Women Doctors: Waste of Money? in BusinessWeek that is actually based on […]