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Author: Alaka Ray

Alaka Ray, MD, is a primary care physician, associate program director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also the lucky mother of two hilarious and imaginative children. Find her on Twitter @AlakaRay.
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Recognizing the Domestic and Childcare Workers That Help Women in Medicine Succeed

Altaf Saadi, Alaka Ray and Anne N. Thorndike

September is Women in Medicine Month, when we celebrate formidable and inspiring female physicians. But each year, one group is largely neglected: the women who help us to succeed.

Raising the status of the domestic and childcare workers who help us is critical to the next generation of women pursuing careers in medicine.

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