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Opinion: ‘I’m pretty much all in’: An interview with a woman starting medical residency at almost 73
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Opinion: ‘I’m pretty much all in’: An interview with a woman starting medical residency at almost 73

STAT News · Jun 13, 2026, 8:30 AM

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Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the “First Opinion Podcast” interview with Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft. Be sure to sign up for the weekly “First Opinion Podcast” on&#x A0;Apple Podcasts,&#x A0;Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get alerts about each new episode by signing up for the “First Opinion Podcast” newsletter. And don’t forget to sign up for the&#x A0;First Opinion newsletter, delivered every Sunday. Torie Bosch: So I get a surprising number of ideas for First Opinion by watching TikTok. It’s for work, I swear. Recently, I came across a video of a woman proudly sharing the fact that her mother, age 72, had just completed medical school and matched into residency. I had to talk to the septuagenarian to find out more about going to medical school at an age when most people have already retired. And much to my delight, she agreed.Read the rest…

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