Family issues affecting women in medicine, particularly women surgeons

All the others are professionally active. [...]the majority of our respondents are in the midcourse of their careers. According to our survey, the most stressful time for a woman surgeon was during the years of residency training. [...]the successful marriages were those in which spouses shared or t...

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Published inThe American journal of surgery Vol. 192; no. 5; pp. 695 - 698
Main Authors Straehley, Clifford J., Longo, Patrizia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 01.11.2006
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Adult
Age
Aged
Alcoholism
Careers
Divorce
Divorce - statistics & numerical data
Education
Families & family life
Family
Female
General Surgery - education
General Surgery - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Internship and Residency
Interprofessional Relations
Marriage
Medicine
Middle Aged
Physicians, Women - psychology
Physicians, Women - statistics & numerical data
Retirement
Social Responsibility
Stress, Psychological - epidemiology
Surgery
Wages & salaries
Women
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Summary:All the others are professionally active. [...]the majority of our respondents are in the midcourse of their careers. According to our survey, the most stressful time for a woman surgeon was during the years of residency training. [...]the successful marriages were those in which spouses shared or took over the work of care.
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ISSN:0002-9610
1879-1883
DOI:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2006.04.005