A few months ago, I had an experience much more familiar to me as a writer than a physician: getting rejected. I had written a piece about my experience as a woman trying to hide her cancer diagnosis.

Last month, an article in The Annals of Internal Medicine reported significantly lower mortality rates for severely ill hospitalized patients treated by female physicians. The results were most robust ...

“When will I see the doctor?” Most female doctors have been asked this question many times. It feels like a slight — a failure to recognize the struggle it took to get to where they are, a fight that ...