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By Patricia L. Dawson. 176 pp. Seattle, Open Hand, 1999. $15. ISBN 0-940880-64-4.

Forged by the Knife is a study of black female general surgeons and their experiences of residency training. Dawson, herself a black general surgeon, wrote the book as a doctoral dissertation. Looking back on her own residency, she realized how deeply she had been affected by the culture of surgery, and she wanted to collect and examine the stories of others like her.

Most attending physicians with whom she worked during her general surgical training were white men who, she believes, had "little interest in mentoring [her] and little experience with female surgery residents." Although she had little contact with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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