Category Archives: Telling Stories

The Buffalo Bitch Trials—A Memoir

By Linda | April 13, 2010

Writing a personal account of a part of one’s life is known as a memoir. It differs from an autobiography in that the details and facts are described as the author has experienced and remembers. Sometimes supported by notes and other documents, but not reliant on precise fact, as much is in the emotive [...]

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Telling Stories: Unbelievable?

By Linda | October 26, 2009

Not a day goes by that I don’t encounter some woman who doesn’t have a story where she believes that her gender played a factor in differential, negative treatment somewhere in the house of medicine. After listening to stories from medical students, physicians in academic medicine, mother’s of patients, patients themselves, and seasoned seemingly [...]

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Telling Stories: Research Can Be Fun

By Linda | October 14, 2009

Yes, yes, I am working on this book about gender discrimination and healthcare. The stories have led me down so many unexpected paths. New syndromes, its effects on men, maybe even new breakthroughs on disease causality. (Are any of you librarians and can tell me the incidence of allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases in this [...]

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Telling Stories: Taking Inventory

By Linda | September 11, 2009

Confession: My life and my successes are largely due to my compulsion to make “To Do” lists. When I am at my best (or maybe some of you would think at my worst), I even put “Make Next Week’s ‘To Do’ List” on a current “To Do” list. Having a “To Do” [...]

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