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Here in this side of doctoring eliza lo chin offers a penetrating analysis of what its like to be a woman in the highly competitive field of medicine written over the last century and a half this collection of personal stories poems essays and quotations reveals the intimate lives of over a hundred female physicians. Throughout history women have practiced the art of medicine and healing yet they have always faced difficulties in the medical profession not only have they struggled to gain acceptance from their male colleagues they have also struggled to find a balance between being a doctor and being a wife and mother. This side of doctoring reflections for women in medicine offers up an intimate collection of stories poems essays and quotations that captures the joy and heartbreak of being women and being a physician. Yet this side of doctoring reflections from women in medicine eliza lo chins collection of 140 stories essays and poems succeeds in compiling what janet bickel who writes the foreword calls a welcome network of like experiences. Together they stand as an enduring tribute to the dedication of all women physicians to both their patients and their familiesthese accounts of doctoring and family concerns are universal enough to transcend gender in relationships with patients and colleagues balancing work and family and finding meaning in ones profession