Don’t Ever Let Them Break You
A medical student and then OB-GYN resident discovers what it’s like to be a woman in medicine.
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Don’t Ever Let Them Break You
Editor’s Note: This piece was awarded an honorable mention in the Pulse writing contest, “On Being Different.”
I was a woman in medical school before there were more women students than men—back when women were expected to be more masculine than the men if they wanted to succeed as doctors, back when the idea that we could report our medical-school professors for sexual harassment was just a twinkle in the eye of someone braver and less conflict-avoidant than I was.
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