Letter to a Young Female Physician: Thoughts on Life and Work [Paperback]

A warm and wry epistle, the endless and near-perfect email you wish your mother, your mentor and your therapist would sit down and type out together. Laura Kolbe, [Koven] is rueful and delightful and keeps on building a careening and fascinating life... [ [These] phenomenal essays...are full of acuity and generosity... [Koven's] writing is full of humor, candor, by turns (and often simultaneously) beautiful and heartbreaking shards of narrative, about her own life and the lives of her patients and colleagues. Shes also got a killer sense of humor and a fantastic eye for detail. Suzanne Kovens In Suzanne Koven has written a remarkable memoir about her life as a doctor that is at once heartwarming, poignant, and breathtaking in its precision; this is a book about the essence of medicine, and will be invaluable to any doctor. But in its compassionate reflections on caring for the human body, it is also a book about life, and what makes a good one. I couldnt stop reading. Funny, touching, and self-deprecating... [A] thought-provoking and inspiring memoir.