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Writer's pictureLaura B. Vater, MD, MPH

Why Can't I Be Both a Good Doctor and a Good Mother? (MEDPAGE TODAY)

(Published on MedPage Today) I became a mom in medical school. I became a mom at a time when many people told me I shouldn't (or couldn't) do it.


They said, "Just going for the medical degree, but not the career then?" As if being a mother would somehow make me incapable of the clinical practice of medicine. Another person told me, "You should choose an easier specialty." One even said, "You can't be a good doctor and a good mother."




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