Editor’s Note: A brilliant resident-engineered arrangement that led to a positive result. In the distant past and even occasionally today, women were and are not welcomed into all orthopaedic residency programs. There are hold-out faculty who feel women do not belong...
Editor’s Note: This account describes how grit is a requirement for negotiating multiple obstacles along the way to reaching a goal. The outcome is triumph. I wanted to be a “bone doctor” since the age of three. My parents have video proof of this. Where the notion...
Editor’s Note: This story counters a common belief. Don’t accept the narrative that women always make less money than the men in orthopedic surgery. Working for a not-for-profit institution in a particular state mandated that my salary be published for all the public...
Editor’s Note: This account describes an epiphany experienced during the orthopedic junior resident year. One night midway through my orthopedic junior residency year, I was on call at a large inner-city hospital with a very busy emergency department. Patients...
