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Brad Herrin is a pediatrician.

Male physicians don’t have to choose between family or career

Brad Herrin, MD
Physician
January 30, 2019

“Didn’t you just have a baby? When are you going to stop?”

Those words weren’t directed to me but to a colleague by a patient’s parent who was frustrated that they wouldn’t be able to see her for follow-up. Yet, they could have easily been uttered by another physician in our group discussing coverage during her planned maternity leave. These are words as a male physician I will never be forced …

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Male physicians don’t have to choose between family or career

What does your husband think about you being a surgeon?

Brad Herrin, MD
Physician
May 21, 2017

Not once during my eight years of medical school and residency training was I ever asked the converse of the titular question, what was my wife’s opinion of my career choice. Not while scrubbed into a case on my surgery rotations, not in the middle of an overnight call in the neonatal intensive care unit and never once by an attending, fellow or co-resident. Even those who knew me best and …

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What does your husband think about you being a surgeon?

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