Cocoa Pods

Can you be a surgeon and a also mother simultaneously, what is the attrition rate of female general surgery residents in their training In this episodes we also talk about the "disappearing" black doctors , what is happening to minority physicians in the lifespan of their careers At the end Dr Miller shares a poem she wrote "Red Sea" from a patient from her palliative medicine practice, a black woman scholar who died an ugly undignified death in the hands of surgeons that did not have the courage to tell her she was dying - chose to operate -and she never woke up from surgery...