amishanara
She was trained to save lives.
No one told her the one who would need saving was herself.
In the unforgiving corridors of a teaching hospital, a young surgical trainee learns that mastering the scalpel is only half the battle. In the midst of the twenty four hour shifts, sleepless nights, bloody scrubs and abusive colleagues, she's crushed by the relentless pressure to prove herself every single day.
But the hardest battles aren't the ones of the operating table. They are in the casual humiliation disguised as teaching. In the double standards hiding behind "seniority". In the careers quietly sabotaged to feed someone's ego. In being called "difficult" when a man would be called "confident".
In being expected to be brilliant, but never intimidating.
Resilient, but never angry.
Ambitious, but never threatening.
A woman, but also not.
This is not just my story. It's the story of all those women before me, with me and after me, in a job that is neither forgiving nor accepting of a women just trying to belong.