Family issues affecting women in medicine, particularly women surgeons

• Published in: The American journal of surgery Vol. 192; no. 5; pp. 695 - 698
• Main Authors: Straehley, Clifford J., Longo, Patrizia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...