Women in medicine: The Henry Higgins problem

Julie R Ingelfinger^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Senior Consultant in Pediatric Nephrology, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Deputy Editor, the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Editorial

Julie R Ingelfinger. Respirology. 2020 Apr.

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. 2020 Apr;25(4):348-349.

doi: 10.1111/resp.13792. Epub 2020 Feb 25.

Julie R Ingelfinger^{1

2

3}

¹ Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Senior Consultant in Pediatric Nephrology, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Deputy Editor, the New England Journal of Medicine.

No abstract available

Keywords: disparities; gender; medicine.

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