Illustration by Jennifer Bogartz https://www.1001cuts.org/ I came across this yesterday and couldn't believe how timely it was. Many people are surprised by the lack of women in surgery. The premise of my book – the struggles of a lone woman surgeon in an otherwise all- male practicing environment in a hospital in the Deep South- is an all too common scenario, one that influences many women to quit medicine or move into a field that is less male-dominated.

June18 Last week I read Slouching Toward Bethlehem a collection of essays by Joan Didion, in which she painted a picture of California in the mid to late 60s and exposed the day-to-day aimlessness of the Summer of Love as well as her profound and at times difficult to interpret impression of people from John Wayne and Joan Baez to the Grateful Dead. She talked about keeping a notebook which dovetails well with a practice my friends and I are attempting to make daily of writin

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