"I spent too long thinking that because the system was a certain way, that that was the right way for it to be, and I think it took me a really long time to have the perspective to look and see how diseased our entire system really is, and to think of it in terms of how if we were to design a system by which to train physicians today…for training a group of competent, kind, compassionate, knowledgeable, diverse physicians, we would never design the system that’s been designed"

"Yes, everyone should get negotiation skills training, but wouldn’t it be really unique if we just created systems that treated everybody fairly to begin with and we didn’t make people fight for resources and equitable compensation?"

"Not only are parental leave policies abysmally short and inappropriate for the birth parent…but they are also woefully inadequate for the non-birth parent as well…it creates this dynamic right from the time of a child’s birth that you are basically saying, culture, society, is saying that there is one parent that is more important in the care of a child than another parent, and in some ways we never recover from that.”

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Links to some of Wendy's work:
- "Wondering If I’d Get There Quicker If I Was a Man: Factors Contributing to Delayed Academic Advancement of Women in Infectious Diseases"
- "One Person" - JAMA A Piece of My Mind
- "It's Not Your Fault" - JAMA A Piece of My Mind
- "An Essential Worker's List of Pandemic Chores for the Kids"

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