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“You Look Too Young To Be My Surgeon!” – Navigating Patient’s Assumptions About Age as Junior, Female Faculty

The clock ticked past 4AM in the emergency room. It was eerily quiet for the ER as I sat next to the chief resident on my service with a 78-year-old patient who had presented with severe abdominal pain, deranged vitals, and pneumoperitoneum on his CT scan. After talking with him for 15 minutes, I provided […]