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.

Foreword - Janet BickelAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Eliza Lo Chin1. Historical Perspective - Eliza Lo Chin2. 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 Holmes3. 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. Watkins4. 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 Stroud5. 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 Uraneck6. 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 Saxe7. 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 Piziak8. 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. Robertson9. 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. Merritt10. 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 Olarte11. 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 Gera12. 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 ChinGlossaryResources for Women in MedicineAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors