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Gynecologic cancer: Being a part of these women’s stories

Sharlay Butler
Education
November 19, 2014

Mrs. C was used to my quiet knock every morning at 6 a.m. She smiled as I turned on the overhead lights, but began to grimace when she realized that today was dressing-change day. The rustling packages of bandages in my overstuffed coat pockets had given it away. Mrs. C had stage four metastatic endometrial cancer; a malignancy of her uterus that was not responding well to chemotherapy and had …

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Gynecologic cancer: Being a part of these women’s stories

Medicine is an inaccessible career choice for Native Americans

Sharlay Butler
Education
July 15, 2014

My path to medicine is tied to my family’s experience with poverty, and with the profound economic fallout a major illness can bring in such circumstances. I grew up on the Couer d’Alene reservation in Northern Idaho. My mother was a single parent who had to rely on government assistance to raise three children in subsidized housing. As the eldest, I was expected to help care for my younger siblings …

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Medicine is an inaccessible career choice for Native Americans

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