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Lekshmi Santhosh

Dr. Lekshmi Santhosh is a Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Hospital Medicine physician practicing in San Francisco. She lives with her husband and two babies under 3. She thanks you all for reading and sheltering-in-place and flattening the curve.

April 30, 2020

“Thanks for Assuming I’m Not the Faculty and That My Faculty Is Male”: Texts from Four Women ICU Physicians Across the Country Caring for COVID Patients

by Lekshmi Santhosh, Michelle Sharp, Nancy Stewart, and Gretchen Winter

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