Vindicated! In a recent post, I took aim at a BusinessWeek article and site comments that insinuated that women doctors were a waste of money using the changing scope of medicine as their proof. I countered that those same changes were very much welcomed by the young men in medicine as well and that the phenomenon is really one of changing times for all.
So yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, As Doctors Get a Life, Strains Show where they talked about doctors who have recently completed training in the past decade buckling the trend of how medicine used to be.
And I quote:
Walter Cheng, 32 years old, is in the profession’s new guard. Upon graduating from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2004, he bristled at the notion espoused by some senior physicians that a doctor should put medicine above all else. “I thought, ‘I don’t really want to be that kind of doctor.’… My family is as important, if not more important, than my career.”
Aha! And I do believe Walter is a man! The rest of the article is just as insightful. Check it out then go back to my original post, third paragraph to the end pretty much sums it up.
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