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Welcome back clinical problem solvers. I'm Emma Levine, and I'm absolutely thrilled to be back with our incredible boss lady team this week, Alexandra J. Tang, Flafe Butler, and Anna Fretz.

Today's episode will consist of two parts. The first part will work through a case, and the second part will focus on gender bias in proceduralist internal medicine fields.

I'm truly so honored to introduce Dr. Alexandra J. Tang and Dr. Blythe Butler.

Dr. Tang hails from Berkeley and graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in history and science. After college, she worked at UCSF as a clinical research coordinator and patient navigator for women newly diagnosed

with breast cancer, helping them prepare questions for their doctor and accompanying them to

appointments. That experience helped convince her to pursue medicine. Dr. Tang earned her medical

degree from UCSA, then completed internal medicine residency at UCLA. A competitive skier,

she was originally interested in orthopedics, but she had a dramatic pivot at the end of her first

year of medical school.

As she states, on the morning of my last final, I went into cardiac arrest and was admitted to Moffat Hospital.

The hospital team did an extensive workup, eventually diagnosing her with a rare condition called congenital long QT syndrome,

and implanting a cardiac defibrillator to prevent future life-threatening complications. She says that she was incredibly lucky and feels a very personal connection to cardiology.

She felt fortunate to train in the place and with the people who saved her life.

She eventually went on to complete her cardiology fellowship and subspecialty training

and interventional cardiology at UCSF. She is now on to complete her cardiology fellowship and sub-specialty training and

interventional cardiology at UCSF. She is now on faculty at Kaiser.

Blythe Butler is a first year internal medicine resident at University of California, San Francisco.

She grew up in Spokane, Washington, and attended Dartmouth College where she studied chemistry.

She went on to pursue a career in

education and spent four years teaching general and AP chemistry as a high school teacher in San Jose,

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