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Your Career: Female Physician Troubled by Perceived Abrasiveness

Mamta Gautam, MD, MBA, FRCPC, CCPE, CPE

July 19, 2018


Summary:

A woman angry for being called bossy in a predominantly male workplace gets advice from a career expert.





Struggling to behave in a way that goes against instinct, she asks our career pros to help identify a balance between “passive” and “abrasive.”

Mamta Gautam, MD, MBA, FRCPC, CCPE, CPE
Mamta Gautam

Mamta Gautam, MD, MBA, FRCPC, CCPE, CPE, is in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa and a psychiatrist at The Ottawa Hospital in Ontario, Canada.

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