Stress Test - White Drew, Kay
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This memoir of medical training in the 1970s, Stress Test, is particularly timely after the Dobbs decision, when the rights that underpin a woman's ability to participate fully in professional and public life are under attack. The story takes the reader through a five-year crucible, from the first day of medical school through the last day of an internship year in pediatrics and from the gross anatomy lab to the neonatal intensive care unit. Unveiling the cadaver in the first days of medical school while her mother lay dying on an oncology ward; the excitement of making difficult diagnoses and…mehr

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This memoir of medical training in the 1970s, Stress Test, is particularly timely after the Dobbs decision, when the rights that underpin a woman's ability to participate fully in professional and public life are under attack. The story takes the reader through a five-year crucible, from the first day of medical school through the last day of an internship year in pediatrics and from the gross anatomy lab to the neonatal intensive care unit. Unveiling the cadaver in the first days of medical school while her mother lay dying on an oncology ward; the excitement of making difficult diagnoses and the terror and tragedy of disastrous mistakes; the joy of connecting with patients and the heartbreak of losing them-it's all here. Women comprised less than a fifth of the author's medical school class, so the scourge of sexism riddles the narrative. And as a white woman in the largely Black urban environment of West Baltimore, barely a decade after the Civil Rights movement and long before Black Lives Matter, she bore witness throughout her training to the human cost of racism. All this took place while the author navigated personal struggles: her mother's death two months into medical school; several ill-starred romantic relationships, including an interracial love affair with a professor; a roommate's suicide; and her own suicidality, depression, and experiences in therapy. This memoir joins a growing body of work by women physicians in recent years, including several memoirs. What makes it unique is the era when it was written: a time when women were still years away from comprising half-or more-of medical school students, and when the second wave of feminism was surging. Many of the fears, griefs, and struggles that women in medicine face today are the same ones the author grappled with decades earlier.
Autorenporträt
Katherine White, M.D., aka Kay White Drew, is a retired neonatal physician and lifelong writer. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa with honors from Wellesley College, she obtained her M.D. degree from the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore. She completed a residency in Pediatrics at the University of Maryland and a fellowship in Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, was board-certified in both specialties, and subsequently practiced neonatology in the DC suburbs of Maryland. Her writing appears in regional anthologies and journals including Bay to Ocean Journal, This Is What America Looks Like, Pen in Hand, and Grace in Darkness; and online journals including The Loch Raven Review, where one of her essays was nominated for a Pushcart Prize; Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine; and Maryland Literary Review. She lives in Rockville, MD, with her husband, and enjoys spending time with family and friends; traveling, especially road trips; walking in the woods; and, of course, reading.