Students who aspire to go to medical school should think about the consequences if they decide to work part time or leave clinical medicine. It’s fair to ask them — women especially — to consider the conflicting demands that medicine and parenthood make before they accept (and deny to others) sought-after positions in medical school and residency. They must understand that medical education is a privilege, not an entitlement, and it confers a real moral obligation to serve.
Full Op Ed from the NYT.
Thoughts? I tend to think the problem is more systemic than the author likes to admit. The problem isn't just that women want enough time to raise families, but that men assume that women will raise their families for them. It should be the same choice for either gender, but it just doesn't present itself that way.
That being said, I also agree with her.
