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On Being a Doctor |1 July 1995

Of Locker Rooms and Labor Pains

Eliza S. Shin

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Being a woman in medicine has its obstacles. I once expected that my gender would diminish in importance with each added year of schooling. That is, I thought that as my gray matter increased in prominence, the casing would become immaterial. As with many other childhood expectations, however, all that remains is a dream.
In grade school, cooties differentiated the sexes. Later, my secondary sex characteristics developed and remarks from the streets initiated me into the realm of womanhood. My intellectual awareness then followed, as college acquainted me with the academic nature of the feminist cause. These three—cooties, catcalls, and...
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Shin ES. Of Locker Rooms and Labor Pains. Ann Intern Med. 1995;123:71–72. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-123-1-199507010-00012

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1995;123(1):71-72.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-123-1-199507010-00012

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