Letter to a Young Female Physician : W.W. Norton and Company : 9781324021902 : 132402190X : 10 Jun 2022 : In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"?a long-held secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a ?real? doctor. Accessed by thousands of readers around the world, Koven's ?Letter to a Young Female Physician? has evolved into a deeply felt reflection on her career in medicine.Koven tells candid and illuminating stories about her pregnancy during a grueling residency in the AIDS era; the illnesses of her child and aging parents during which her roles as a doctor, mother, and daughter converged, and sometimes collided; the sexism, pay inequity, and harassment that women in medicine encounter; and the twilight of her career during the COVID-19 pandemic. As she traces the arc of her life, Koven finds inspiration in literature and faces the near-u