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Author Hill, Emma

Title So you want to be a medical mum?
Published Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (390 pages)
Series Success in Medicine
Success in medicine.
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Thanks; Dedication; Preface; Glossary and abbreviations; Contents; Introduction; 1 Before you take the plunge; 2 Trying to get pregnant; 3 Life as a pregnant hospital doctor; 4 Life as a pregnant general practitioner; 5 Academic medicine; 6 Pregnancy as an undergraduate; 7 Know your rights: employment law; 8 Maternity leave; 9 Before the baby arrives; 10 Doctors giving birth; 11 Early days ... Yes, it was a baby (not flatus or fluid); 12 Planning your return to work; 13 Breastfeeding and working; 14 Childcare; 15 Being back at work; 16 Working fathers
17 'Planning' further pregnancies18 Now we are six ... Watching your children grow; 19 Money matters; 20 Do you still wish you'd been a lawyer?; Frequently asked questions; Appendix 1: Useful contacts; Index
Summary In 2006 over 60% of medical graduates in the UK were female, and the number of women going to medical school as 'mature students' is steadily increasing. Some of these women will, at some point, choose to have a baby, but the question always asked is how to fit it in with a medical career? Along with the problem of finding time to actually have a baby, and coping as a pregnant doctor, there is the problem of finding information when it is most needed. This book addresses thisproblem, bringing a wealth of information together in one easy-to-use resource. Written by a mother, who has faced the j
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Subject Pregnant women -- Great Britain -- Life skills guides
Women physicians -- Great Britain -- Life skills guides
Work and family -- Great Britain
Working mothers -- Great Britain -- Life skills guides
Pregnant women
Women physicians
Work and family
Working mothers
Great Britain
Genre/Form Life skills guides
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191579806
0191579807
9780191553363
0191553360