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	Forged by the Knife: The Experience of Surgical Residency from the Perspective of a Woman of Color
	Book Information Publisher: Open Hand Pub. Book Type: Paperback Rating: ISBN-13: 9780940880641 - ISBN-10: 0940880644 Publication Date: 10/1/1999 Pages: 176

The author draws on her own residency experiences and from interviews with six other Black women surgeons to describe the obstacles they faced in a social system designed as an endurance test or boot camp for White men.

Their stories shed light on the experiences of a pathbreaking group of women. Medical school administrators, educators, and those seeking to understand why empathy does or does not develop ion physicians will find this a valuable book. It also speaks to those seeking to understand institutionalized racism and sexism.

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