We were also resented because being hospital-based and not having to rent office space or hire nursing staff, we had low overheads. Apart from colour, we were shunned because we did not bring in patients ourselves but, like vultures, lived off the patients generated by other doctors. Last on the list were the hospital-based physicians: the radiologists, pathologists and anaesthesiologists - especially non-white, female ones like me. At the top were the white male 'primary producers' in prestigious surgical specialties. There was an unspoken pecking order of seating arrangements at lunch among my fellow physicians. The easy camaraderie prevailing in the operating room evaporated at the completion of surgical procedures. “In the early 1970s, racial and gender discrimination was still prevalent.
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