Women in medicine need to have each others’ backs. Too often, they don’t.
The recent controversy and backlash surrounding Kamala Harris’s Vogue cover shows that it is still fashionable to diminish powerful women. It also is the latest example of the sad fact that no matter how far we have come, women are still held to a different standard—by both men and women.
As a female vascular surgeon, I have spent my career pushing back on ideas about what …
Women in medicine need to have each others’ backs. Too often, they don’t.
