KevinMD March 12, 2025
A recent Time magazine article, “Women Live Longer Than Men—But Not in Medicine,” confirmed what many of us have long felt in our bones: Being a woman in medicine comes at a cost.
A staggering one.
Women physicians are dying younger than male physicians. Younger than women in the general population.
And that’s just what the mortality data shows.
The morbidity—the chronic health issues, the emotional exhaustion, the unseen physical toll—is harder to quantify. But we feel it. We live it. And far too often, we normalize it.
The hidden burden of women physicians
Women physicians give so much.
We stay longer with patients.
We carry the unseen emotional labor of medicine.
We listen deeply.
We mentor and guide.
We...
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