Women physicians and pivoting from medicine

<p>"We must continue to work to create gender equity as here is where we stand today: A significant gender pay gap still exists in medicine where women doctors earn up to 33% less than their male counterparts. Even though women make up 36% of practicing doctors in the country, only 15% of women doctors are department chairs. Among women doctors who are also mothers, 78% felt discrimination. All of this is leading to 48% of women doctors reporting burnout, and 22% of female physicians admitted thoughts of suicide this year right before the pandemic hit our shores.</p> <p>As a nation, we cannot afford to lose doctors to professional burnout and suicide, especially in the midst of a global pandemic worsening and hitting record numbers throughout our country in recent weeks."</p> <p><a href= "https://womeninwhitecoats.com/speakers/name/archana-shrestha/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Archana Reddy Shrestha</a> is a physician life coach, author, and co-founder, <a href="https://womeninwhitecoats.com/" target= "_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Women in White Coats</a>. She can be reached on Instagram <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/womeninwhitecoatsblog/?hl=en" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@womeninwhitecoatsblog</a>.</p> <p>She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "<a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/11/what-kamala-harris-means-for-women-doctors.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">What Kamala Harris means for women doctors</a>." (<a href= "https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/11/what-kamala-harris-means-for-women-doctors.html">https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/11/what-kamala-harris-means-for-women-doctors.html</a>)</p>