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Andrea Hayes-Jordan, MD
Toronto, Ontario

Arch Surg. 2001;136:655.

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As a woman who has completed 7 years of general surgical training and had 2 children during this time, I appreciate this informative study by Dr Mayer. Even though the numbers are small and limited to one institution, this information is an important foundation for further research and discussion. The comparisons made with Fortune 500 companies and the survey thereof are critical to the content of the article and are to be commended. It is clear from her article that most of the women physicians studied chose to have children after completing residency training. However, men and women physicians found that postponing childbearing until residency completion did not change their choice of child care or increase their satisfaction with child care arrangements. Eighty percent of surgeons were dissatisfied with their child care arrangements. This dissatisfaction may not be because of substandard child care, but rather because these . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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