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Women in Thoracic Surgery

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By Avery M. Trudell, Brienne Ryan, Jackie Olive, Caitlin Brown
| wtsnet.org
I’ve always wanted to be a cardiac surgeon. Even as a child, I dreamed that I would be a heart surgeon one day. As an adolescent, adults would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and when I told them, they would invariably ask, “But don’t you want to be a mommy one day?” as if surgery and motherhood were mutually exclusive. It didn’t bother me then because I wasn’t thinking about children. I just wanted to be a heart surgeon, and if I happened to become a mother, then that would be fine too.
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Tell Them We Are Rising

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By Jackie Olive, Ray Santisteban, Catharine Axley, Treva Wurmfeld
| PBS Verified
Film Credits WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY Stanley Nelson CO-PRODUCED and CO-DIRECTED BY Marco Williams PRODUCED BY Cyndee Readdean Stacey L.
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Mentorship is the key ingredient for success in medicine

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By Jackie Olive
| The Podcast by KevinMD Verified
I am always on a quest to be helpful. For this reason, a life in medicine has always made perfect sense to me. My interest in surgery also developed early when I had been performing music for Alzheimer’s patients in high school. It was almost unbelievable to help these individuals reconnect with their memories and surroundings through my music. But I left each day frustrated and aching, knowing that these cognitive revivals were only temporary.
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