MORE...ON BECOMING AND BEING A DOCTOR!

Death and Dying
From: A Death in the Glitter Palace, Battles of Life and Death
In this Pushcart Prize anthology Best Essay, a patient who has been cured of one illness (Hodgkin's Diesase) struggles to survive another illness--caused by treatment itself.

Women in Medicine...1950s through 1990s
From: A Family of Doctors
What was it like to become a doctor in the 1950s--if you were a woman--and one of a handful of women in your med school class? And what is it like today, as more than 40% of incoming med students are women? Two excerpts from A Family of Doctors...my mother Dr. Mary Hellerstein in the 1950s, and my sisters, Dr. Susan and Dr. Elizabeth Hellerstein in the 1990s...