Solo practice: A woman surgeon's story - Hardcover

Morgan, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316582980 ISBN 13: 9780316582988

Publisher: Little, Brown, 1982

Synopsis

The author's account of her first year of private practice as a plastic surgeon and of her attempts to balance her career with her personal and family needs also provides an assessment of today's medical profession

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From Publishers Weekly

The situation of a single mother is not without hardship even when she is comfortable like Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon with a supportive family and associates. Although her passages about performing surgery and about problems such as housing, child care and illnesses tend to be overwritten, the emotional strain these situations exact comes through, as does the impact of a divorce and custody battle. Like many divorced working women, the author had to endure weeks of grueling interrogations, defending her morals and fitness to bring up a child despite career obligations. Having won custodythanks, she acknowledges, to a highly paid lawyer not every woman could affordMorgan (The Making of a Woman Surgeon claims that it took her months to recover from the "brutal psychological assault" of the trial and that her daughter's development was impaired by the premature visitation periods at the father's residence imposed by law. First serial for Self.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Dr. Morgan's earlier The Making of a Woman Surgeon ( LJ 8/80) was a fascinating yet relatively dispassionate account of her journey to become a plastic surgeon. In Custody , emotion is paramount, as the author relates her struggle to maintain custody of her daughter. The joys of motherhood, her successful and economically essential career, as well as her relationship with patients, family, lawyers, and an ex-husband are woven into this book, but the central theme is the author's fear of losing custody of her child. Undoubtedly real to her, these fears may seem unfounded to some readers, to whom the outcome will seem not to be in doubt. Morgan, the rational, competent professional, becomes a fervently protective mother with whom most mothers will be able to identify. Public libraries will want to consider. Anne Twitchell, Mote Marine Laboratory Lib., Sarasota, Fla.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0316582980
• ISBN 13: 9780316582988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294