Editor’s Note: An adverse occurrence during early career development at an academic medical center. Through the experience I gained as an adolescent working in my mother’s internal medicine office, I developed a sense of how medical practices are run. This was...
Editor’s Note: The path to becoming an orthopaedic surgeon can be circuitous. This story is similar in many ways to that experienced by Dr. Ruth Jackson, the first Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon, who was told “no” at many points during her education and career....
Editor’s Note: The wisdom described here has led to a satisfying career. I was invited to interview at an orthopedic residency program I was very interested in. I sat across the desk from the chairman who had recently been the president of the AAOS. He was known to be...
Editor’s Note: Wonderful examples of reaching out to young women to promote careers in orthopedic surgery. Over two decades ago, while in private practice, I was invited to join a panel of three “strong women” for the benefit of a group of medical students. The...
Editor’s Note: Here is an enlightened approach to improving the lives of a specific subset of orthopaedic patients. In the spirit of keeping this account relatively anonymous, many descriptive facts have been deleted. I trained in and practiced a “different”...
Editor’s Note: An explanation of the important distinction between mentoring and sponsorship. I was the first female fellow in a prominent institution’s well-respected program and was one of two fellows. Just prior to the year beginning, another male fellow was added....
